"You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all."

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Source : Alberto Moravia (1961). “The Empty Canvas”, London : Secker & Warburg

Alberto Moravia

#Thinking Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about.”
“We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.”

Source : Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.
“In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.”
“Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.”
“You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.”
“I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany.”
“It is not necessary for one to have perfected moral practice before asking others to consider their own actions”

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