"If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to."

-- Oprah Winfrey

#Friendship Quotes #Self Quotes #People Quotes

“I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.”

Source : Walter Kirn (2006). “Mission to America”, p.167, Anchor
“A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.”
“Iâ€™ve never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesnâ€™t feel right or isnâ€™t going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it.”
“They're two types of people; those who are busy being about it and those who talk about it.”
“One of the reasons people get old - lose their aliveness - is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff.”
“But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.”
“If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.”
“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”

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