"I actually grew fond of her in a nastily superior kind of way. For she was so completely artless and optimistic and clueless, she didn't care that she smelled bad or was fat or wore clothes unlike everyone else's, she had some weird disconnect with life that kept her constantly bubbling, and you knew she would go blithely through her long horribly boring life thinking every thing was just swell (the opposite of me)."

-- Peter Cameron

#Clueless Quotes #Optimistic Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.”
“All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens”
“I am very careful about what I eat, and I exercise pretty much every day, whether it be rock-climbing, running, Muay Thai, yoga, horse riding, stand-up paddleboarding, or plain and simple working out.”
“I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to search and follow your own moral code and live by your own integrity, and mostly just be brave.”
“Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them....”
“It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.”

Source : Amish Tripathi (2015). “The Shiva Trilogy: Omnibus”, p.661, Hachette UK
“I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin it.”
“A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.”

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