"There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship."

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Iris Murdoch

#Relationship Quotes #Happiness Quotes #Marriage Quotes

“Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.”

Source : Ben Casnocha (2015). “My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley”, p.87, John Wiley & Sons
“Why is it that skeptics are always being accused of arrogance? For the record, we're the guys who DON'T claim to have absolute knowledge about the origin of the universe, the origin of life, what happens when we die, what will happen in the future, etc.”
“Make sure that every person, of whatever background, can find in you a welcoming heart.”
“Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.”
“All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.”
“It is worth reminding that being president is a tough job for anybody, and particularly so in the information age. There's such a glut of information. Anything a president says or does is picked up on the Internet or the 24/7 news media and criticized almost instantly. Leaders persuade through their words and as such their words need to be measured and well chosen. It is a tough job.”
“Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.”
“Life is amazing, isn't it? You can't ever tell what will happen. Nobody knows until they go ahead and play the game.”

Source : Gennifer Choldenko (2013). “Al Capone Does My Shirts”, p.214, Bloomsbury Publishing

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