"The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome."

-- Donald A. Norman

#Philosophy Quotes #Important Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.”
“Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.”
“The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.”
“The sand looked so beautiful then, so many little individual grains in the light of the night, giving the watcher the childhood feeling of infinite things finally understood, the humiliating feeling of the watcher's nothingness.”

Source : Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.72, Heinemann
“Just because your aren't perfect, doesn't mean you aren't beautiful.”
“I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.”
“I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.”
“Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.”

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