"It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't."

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E. Nesbit

#People Quotes #Curious Quotes #Enjoy Quotes

“Having inborn capabilities doesn't matter. Whether you can manage them or not, that's what determines the victory or defeat.”
“Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.”

Source : Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.16, Profile Books
“It's the American way: if you don't vote, you don't get to whine.”
“SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.”
“Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.”
“I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.”
“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
“Nothing wrong with wanting to go home.”

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