#Thinking Quotes #Air Quotes #Needs Quotes
“I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising, voices making announcements, aerodynamism, boy scouts, the smell of moth balls, events of the moment, and drunken people.”
“The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”
“A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.”
“Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.”
Source : Lawrence LeShan (1995). “Meditating to Attain a Healthy Body Weight”, Bantam
“Evidence of harm is hard to come by.”
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“I have a lot of respect for L. Ron Hubbard and I consider him to be a genius and perhaps less acknowledged than he ought to be.”
“That guy behind me on the airplane? He's been kicking my seat because he hates me. He's kicking my seat because he hates me and I'm gonna kill him. When we get off this plane, I'm gonna make eye contact. I'm gonna kill that guy. And all of that is just stuff in my head, but it's good to get rid of that stuff.”
“And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I didn't want to give up on my words. I didn't want to choose one over the other. Mark Twain didn't have to. Charles Dickens didn't.”
Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.164, Bloomsbury Publishing
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