"Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself."

-- Epictetus

#Inspirational Quotes #Men Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.”
“There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.”
“Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.”

Source : "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 1, Leaders and Followers, p. 18, 1985.
“If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted. Women who moan and carp about that sort of thing are stupid”
“Jonah Peretti is one of the smartest web publishers out there. And Buzzfeed is an aggressive and dynamic company.”

Source : "Gawker unveils new comments system and Nick Denton immediately uses it to pick fight with BuzzFeed" by Brian Braiker, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2012.
“He then kissed her. It was a very long time before he let her go. When he did, she looked up at him, hurt and bewilderment on her face. â€œWhy did you stop?â€ asked Tessa. â€œI thought you might want to breathe,â€ said Guy carefully. â€œBreathe?â€ said Tessa, shocked. â€œI donâ€™t need to ï»¿breatheï»¿ when Iâ€™m with you.”
“When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she bcame a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.”
“Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.”

Source : Duane Elgin (2010). “Voluntary Simplicity Second Revised Edition: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich”, p.19, Harper Collins

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