"Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it."

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Nancy Friday

#Success Quotes #Culture Quotes #Taught Quotes

“Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious”
“I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.”
“The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time,Â yet be wise enough to know you will fall short.”
“A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only.”
“We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent.”

Source : Bryan Stevenson (2014). “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption”, p.301, Spiegel & Grau
“An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion.”
“Intimidation is 99 percent in the intimidatee's head.”
“Expectations are an evil thing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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