"If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life."

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Source : Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.314, Transaction Publishers

Charles Horton Cooley

#Hero Quotes #Self Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.”
“A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on this or that side, for this or that client: a mere legal beast of prey. Fortunately for himself and for the world he took a higher view of his life-work: his determination clearly was to make himself a thoroughly equipped jurist, and then, as he rose more and more in his profession, to use his powers for the good of his country and of mankind.”

Source : "Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason". Book by Andrew Dickson White, p. 59, 1915.
“It is sometimes asserted that a surgical operation is or should be a work of art ... fit to rank with those of the painter or sculptor. ... That proposition does not admit of discussion. It is a product of the intellectual innocence which I think we surgeons may fairly claim to possess, and which is happily not inconsistent with a quite adequate worldly wisdom.”
“Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do”

Source : FaceBook post by June Hunt from Sep 29, 2014
“So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didnâ€™t complain. It was normal.”
“barfly n. You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share.”
“I have been so fortunate and I really am appreciative of the success I've had.”

Source : "Movies, Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids". Interview with Dr. Beck, www.audiologyonline.com. May 2, 2005.
“Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.”

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