"Itâ€™s irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. What they think of me after Iâ€™m dead and gone in one generation will be determined by researchers who do PhDs on me, right? So there will be a lot of revisionism. As people revised Stalin, Brezhnev and one day now Yeltsin, and later on Putin. Iâ€™ve lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after youâ€™re dead."

-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“Look for happiness under your own roof.”
“I sometimes wish I had never had to sell a painting. Every painting you make represents the time it was made and how you were feeling and what your influences were... You are never going to feel that way again, so you can never repeat it...”
“When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from the good old sea blow in to bathe the wound with salt and let it sting. Let a stray dog lick it Let a bird fly in the hole and sing a simple song like a tiny bell and let it ring.”
“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”
“You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.”
“My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.”

Source : "Linkin Park: 'We're famous, but we're not celebrities'" by Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. July 07, 2011.
“I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life”
“There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs. The frogs never become princes, but it is an acknowledged fact that a prince may very well, in the course of an ordinary marrige, gradually, at first almost imperceptibly, turn into a frog. Happy the woman who after twenty-five years still wakes up beside the prince she fell in love with.”

Source : Stephen Mitchell (1999). “The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults”, Harmony

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