"Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for ever."

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Source : Alastair Reynolds (2006). “Century Rain”, p.84, Penguin

Alastair Reynolds

#Kids Quotes #Differences Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 06, 2017
“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”

Source : Michel Foucault (1988). “Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with Michel Foucault”, Univ of Massachusetts Press
“People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.”
“Live the Self that fills the whole Universe.”
“To use the past to justify the present is bad enoughâ€”but itâ€™s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.”

Source : Amitav Ghosh (2001). “The Glass Palace: A Novel”, p.468, Random House
“When I was in high school, I was a late bloomer. And just like all those supermodels who said they were gawky and no one liked them, that was me - metaphorically. And so I was ready to rise like a phoenix in later times.”
“They were back. The demons in all their glory. And they had a plan. I made plans sometimes, too, but they rarely involved world domination. Hot dogs on a grill, maybe. Tequila.”
“Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you've held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to.”

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