"When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment."

-- Elliot Perlman

#Contentment Quotes #Age Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Donâ€™t wear that boxy trouser suit because you feel like you have to. Wear whatever you want.”
“Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.”
“Ever since I was a young kid, I was always hungry for something. It was this thing inside me that no matter what I did, I couldn't satisfy it.”

Source : Interview with Steve Rosenfield, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.”
“Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.”

Source : William Wycherley, Marvin T. Herrick (1970). “The Country Wife”, p.47, Barron's Educational Series
“It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.”
“A chronicle is very different from history proper.”
“Call in the Caped Crusader, Green Hornet, Kato, too. I'm in so much trouble I don't know what to do.”

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