"We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school."

-- Charlotte Gray

#Sister Quotes #Wise Quotes #School Quotes

“In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.”
“A relationship that has any depth and power at all will inevitably penetrate our usual shield of defenses, exposing our most tender and sensitive spots, and leaving us feeling vulnerable - literally, 'able to be wounded.' To love, in this sense, is to open ourselves to being hurt. The dream of love would have us believe that something is wrong if a relationship causes us pain. Yet trying to avoid the wound of love only creates a more permanent kind of damage. It prevents us from opening ourselves fully, and this keeps us from ever forming a deeply satisfying intimate connection.”
“It's safe to assume that no matter where you stand, someone would be happy to be in your shoes, just as you'd be happy to be in someone else's.”
“So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock.”
“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

Source : Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam
“You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.”
“Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it; so that we find the readiest course to be rid of our comforts is to set our hearts inordinately upon them.”

Source : John flavel, Rev Terry Kulakowski (2017). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.145, Lulu.com
“The biggest question I have is if you're a rock singer or a rock 'n' roll band, or if you're a pop singer if you've made your way in another genre of music and now you want to make a country record, why? That's my question. Why?”

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