"Things look different depending on your perspective. As I see it, fighting to bridge those gaps isn't what really matters. The most important thing is to know them inside and out, as differences, and to understand why certain people are the way they are."

-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Fighting Quotes #Bridges Quotes #Differences Quotes

“Nobody in my family ever surfed, but they would always bring me to the beach.”

Source : Source: www.hamptons.com
“Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie anymore.”
“Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.”
“A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.”
“What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.”
“It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.”
“A universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole of society. These are not matters of government but matters of State; not only matters for the authoirities, but for society in its entirety, including civilian, military, and religious bodies. The mobilization which is urgently needed to effect the transition within two or three years from a culture of war to a culture of peace demands co-operation from everyone. In order to change, the world needs everyone.”
“The values and the relationships of the people I love around me are my real riches. That's my lasting wealth.”

Source : "NBA player who made $30 million explains why he's quitting at age 26" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. February 25, 2015.

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