"We all have ideas about love and death. We keep a close eye out for them our entire lives, seeking one and avoiding the other, knowing all the while that both are mostly beyond our control. It is a both scary and exciting predicament. In the end, it all depends on how you look at it. One thing is for sure; it is never quite what you expect."

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Source : Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl: Lovesick”, p.178, Hachette UK

Tonya Hurley

#Eye Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.”
“Effective policing relies on the police having the confidence of the communities they serve, and this consultation gives the public an opportunity to contribute to the values and standards they expect of police officers.”
“Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.”
“It's LeBron's team. He's the captain. This is the time in my career where I can fit in. I'm now in the security business. My job is to protect the King, and that's what I'm here to do.”
“There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the cerebral cortex. Unlike the rest of the brain, this relatively recent evolutionary development is rather flat, only about 0.32 cm (0.12 in) thick and includes a mere 6 million neurons. This elaborately folded organ provides us with what little competence we do possess for understanding what we do and who we do it.”
“Solitary reading will enable a man to stuff himself with information, but without conversation his mind will become like a pond without an outlet-a mass of unhealthy stag-nature. It is not enough to harvest knowledge by study; the wind of talk must winnow it and blow away the chaff. Then will the clear, bright grains of wisdom be garnered, for our own use or that of others.”
“There are a helluva lot more of us who care about our environment in the world than we realize. We're the majority, and we can do something about that”
“We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”

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