"Press on! Don't let yourselves be robbed of hope. Understood?"

-- Pope Francis

#Understood Quotes

“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.”

Source : Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.187, Random House
“Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.”

Source : FaceBook post by James Salter from Mar 05, 2017
“Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.”
“Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man can sharpen his ability to distinguish between matters of principle and matters of preference, but only if we have a wise interplay between time and truth, between minutes and morality.”
“I never intended to make art.”
“But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place.”
“My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.”

Source : "Computers, Ethics & Social Values". Book edited by Deborah G. Johnson and Helen Fay Nissenbaum, 1995.
“Fences and walls can be effective and even soothing, at least for those who build them.”

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