"The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies."

-- Arthur Koestler

#Self Quotes #Individual Quotes #Tendencies Quotes

“You can't chase everybody on the Internet who's saying stuff about you, that's for sure.”
“Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.”

Source : Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Secret Countess”, p.24, Pan Macmillan
“Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.”

Source : Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1972). “Bring me a unicorn: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Seeing my ideas come to reality. Seeing how happy it makes other people to wear them. Seeing them on other people makes me the happiest.”
“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”

Source : Earl Mac Rauch (2001). “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai”, p.69, Simon and Schuster
“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.”
“This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places, their minds thinking about people elsewhere; they could never be in a single existence at one time. How wonderful it was going to be to have things otherwise.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kiran Desai from Feb 12, 2012

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