"Our opinion of people depends less upon what we see in them, than upon what they make us see in ourselves"

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Source : Sarah Grand (pseud.) (1901). “Babs the Impossible”

Sarah Grand

#People Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.”
“When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree”
“I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept.”
“I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.”
“Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don't blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself.”
“Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.”
“I won't sing to you like Chris and Ne-Yo, but I'm fresher than a stick of deo.”
“Before I can accept someone's help, I must accept their presence.”

Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.29, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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