"When you touch - don't take. Touch people only when you are giving something - reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever"

-- Ken Blanchard

#Encouragement Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.”
“Fear will try to keep you from taking that first step. Don't give in to fear, do it afraid.”
“A lot of other bands have tried to go out there and say we've got views on this and views on that. But some of it I've found opportunist. Duran Duran has always been honest about everything. We've always laid everything out.”

Source : "Nick Rhodes on Duran Duran's staying power". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. September 25, 2011.
“More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. Worldwide, an estimated 17.6 million children under five are said to be overweight.”

Source : Morgan Spurlock (2006). “Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America”, p.65, Penguin
“I don't want to always be 'the best I can be.' I just want to be me.”
“Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.”
“Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal criticâ€”that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.”
“I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.”

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