"Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being."

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Source : Sara Maitland, The School of Life (2014). “How to Be Alone”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

Sara Maitland

#Important Quotes #Identity Quotes #Well Being Quotes

“As a chef Iâ€™m not your dietitian or your ethicist, Iâ€™m in the pleasure business.”
“The addictive experience is the totality of effect produced by an involvement; it stems from pharmacological and physiological sources, but takes its ultimate form from cultural and individual constructions of experience.”

Source : Stanton Peele (1985). “The Meaning of Addiction: Compulsive Experience and Its Interpretation”, Free Press
“Non-reaction is a language that everyone understands. It communicates to the offender and causes him to be upset with the upset that he intended for you.”
“It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”
“The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.”

Source : Sir Walter Scott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated)”, p.5509, Delphi Classics
“The more you know your beauty, power, and worth, the less you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The less you know your beauty, power, and worth, the more you NEED others to VALIDATE you. The more you know, the less you NEED.”
“<...> I’ve never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It’s the intelligence. It’s the mind that makes it so.”
“Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.”

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