"The great artist Michelangelo claimed that his sculptures were already present in the stone, and all he had to do was carve away everything else. Our understanding of identity is often similar: Beneath the many layers of shoulds and shouldnâ€™ts that cover us, there lies a constant, single, true self that is just waiting to be discovered."

-- Sheena Iyengar

#Lying Quotes #Artist Quotes #Self Quotes

“No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.”
“To find the cause of our ills in something outside ourselves, something specific that can be spotted and eliminated, is a diagnosis that cannot fail to appeal. To say that the cause of our troubles is not in us but in the Jews , and pass immediately to the extermination of the Jews, is a prescription likely to find a wide acceptance.”
“Staph lives on skin. Thats the reason why many infections start as a boil.”
“We're taught to take care of people we love, but sometimes you can't.”
“I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?”
“Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out.”
“The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.”

Source : Frances Perkins, Joseph Paul St. Sure (1965). “Two views of American labor”
“Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.”

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