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“The first day of school is bullshit”
Source : Lauren Barnholdt (2012). “Sometimes It Happens”, p.289, Simon and Schuster
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“Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.”
Source : Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster
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“You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”
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“SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it? ... it isn't only that others are there, that they fill up the space next to us. But even when they celebrate us or give advice in a friendly conversation, clever, sensitive advice: even then we can be lonely. So loneliness is not something simply connected with the presence of others or with what they do. Then what? What on earth?”
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“I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.”
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“Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against colds, coughs, congestion of the brain, inflammation of the liver, the kidneys, and the lungs, and a hundred other diseases.”
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“To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.”
Source : Wendell Lewis Willkie (1943). “One World”, New York : Simon and Schuster
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“I didn't drink at all in school, so when I went to college, I went nuts. I was trying to catch up on all the partying I missed out on.”
