"Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language."

-- David Levithan

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Esoteric Quotes

“There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.”
“Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.”

Source : Peggy Lipton, Coco Dalton (2007). “Breathing Out”, p.35, Macmillan
“It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.”
“The goal in life is not to attain some imaginary ideal; it is to find and fully use our own gifts.”

Source : Gay Hendricks, PhD (2009). “The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level”, p.16, Harper Collins
“Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion.”
“I knew that the deepest of tragedies was simple: to love, and not to be loved in return.”

Source : Judy Blundell (2011). “Strings Attached”, p.136, Scholastic Inc.
“Kant does not think there is anything wrong with being beneficent from sympathy. He thinks we have a duty to cultivate sympathetic feelings by participating in the situations of others and acquiring an understanding of them. He thinks we also have a duty to make ourselves into the kind of person for whom the recognition that something is our duty would be a sufficient incentive to do it (if no other incentives were available to us). That's what he means by "the duty to act from the motive of duty".”
“This is the Church of Jesus Christ, and He leads it. No assignment in it need ever overwhelm you if you know that and listen for the Master's voice.”

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