"God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me."

-- Lady Jane Grey

#Desire Quotes #Attention Quotes #Thanks Quotes

“In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.”
“Social media gives one a family to share ones life with.”
“You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.”
“I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he starts.”
“We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started.”
“Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.”
“Everyday that goes by I try to improve myself and searching for something that may even be impossible; perfection.”
“Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.”

Source : The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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