"There are some things about myself I canâ€™t explain to anyone. There are some things I donâ€™t understand at all. I canâ€™t tell what I think about things or what Iâ€™m after. I donâ€™t know what my strengths are or what Iâ€™m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So Iâ€™m not such a wonderful human being."

-- Haruki Murakami

#Hurt Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes

“I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing.”
“Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.”
“I had always attended classes and written stories as a creative outlet because I need that, and I thought ,in my previous career in a model, the way I approached that was that I believed I was telling a non-verbal story.”
“The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.”

Source : Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel (1990). “The Erasmus Reader”, p.313, University of Toronto Press
“I don't change my style for anybody. Pussies do that.”

Source : "An Oral History of Michael Bay, the Most Explosive Director of All Time". Interview, www.gq.com. June 27, 2011.
“I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.”
“In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil believed to be greater. And the tragedy is that we do not know whether the evil we condone will not in the end be greater than the evil we seek to avert-- or be identified with.”
“Forever is composed of nows.”

Source : Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2106, Delphi Classics

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