"A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it."

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Source : Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.8, Penguin

Sloane Crosley

#Comfort Quotes #Realizing Quotes #Humans Quotes

“I look at my kid, and one part of me wants to keep her as my little baby. But, y'know, the bottom line is she's 18!”
“Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.”

Source : Roger Von Oech (2001). “Whack on the Side of the Head”, Mjf Books
“Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.”
“If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more â€Žviolence. If the Jews put â€Ždown their weapons â€Žtoday, there would be noï»¿ â€Žmore Israel'â€Ž”
“While snow the window-panes bedim, The fire curls up a sunny charm, Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim, The flowering ale is set to warm; Mirth, full of joy as summer bees, Sits there, its pleasures to impart, And children, 'tween their parent's knees, Sing scraps of carols o'er by heart.”
“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.”
“To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.”
“We are trained to analyze problems and create solutions. We forget that marriage is a relationship, not a project to be completed or a problem to solve.”

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