"The first and the best victory is to conquer self."

-- Plato

#Work Quotes #Self Quotes #Victory Quotes

“I like women who look like me. Generally, you're attracted to women who look like you, because the most beautiful thing in nature is your own reflection.”

Source : "Howard's Den". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. August 1, 2007.
“I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family.”
“When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social needs that result. There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, school failure, mental and physical health problems.”
“It reminded me of talking, how what is said is never quite what was thought, and what is heard is never quite what was said. It wasnâ€™t much in the way of comfort, but everything has a little failure in it, and we still make do somehow.”
“I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.”
“I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have thoughts, feelings and needs.”
“When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Nov 21, 2010
“And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist.”

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