"We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives."

-- Mildred Newman

#Accountability Quotes #Happens Quotes #Our Lives Quotes

“The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement.”
“According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.”
“Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.”

Source : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books
“People are more than just the way they look.”
“Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.”

Source : "The Ring of Solomon". Book by Jonathan Stroud, October 14, 2010.
“I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.”
“The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.”
“If you go to a therapist, they say, 'Are you sure? How do you feel about your wrinkles?' And I say, 'I don't know, because I don't really see them.' I see my hands, but I don't see my face, so it's not a torment. I only see it for five minutes in the morning when I brush my teeth! When you read women's magazines you always read about this drama of getting old, about anti-aging cream and plastic surgery and whatever else. But I think if you're independent, like I have grown to be, it's welcome.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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