"Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?"

-- Margaret Atwood

#Temptation Quotes #Indispensable Quotes

“And you've got a boy right there who looks at you like he would drink your bathwater if you'd ask him!”
“I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor.”
“No one ever won a game by resigning.”
“Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.”
“I am all about health... and to me, size is not what defines your health.”
“Endure, put up with whatever comes your way, learn to overcome weakness and pain, push yourself to breaking point but never cave in. If you don't learn that lesson, you'll never succeed as an elite athlete.”
“The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.”
“Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.”

Source : Christopher Barzak (2008). “The Love We Share Without Knowing”, p.24, Bantam

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