"Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom."

-- Mary Astell

#Distance Quotes #Unhappy Quotes #Wit Quotes

“I believe that fitness needs to come from within you. You need to respect your body. Only then will you have the zeal to maintain it. For me, keeping fit is a part of my lifestyle.”
“The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.”
“Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.”

Source : David Dreman (2012). “Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Psychological Edge”, p.248, Simon and Schuster
“Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.”
“Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.”
“I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years.”

Source : "Harlan Fiske Stone, Pillar of the Law" by Alpheus Thomas Mason, (p. 95), 1956.
“I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.”
“If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.”

Source : Lance Armstrong (2010). “Every Second Counts”, p.66, Random House

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