"You can't take yourself too seriously."

--

LeRoy Neiman

“I slapped my face two or three times with both hands, as hard as possible. The slapping hurt. It snapped me to attention. My adrenaline started flowing... the Yugoslavs, sitting in the next lane stared at me in disbelief. The harsh slapping made me angry-exactly what I wanted. I did my best work when I was angry.”
“It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.”
“The stronger person is not the one making the most noise but the one who can quietly direct the conversation toward defining and solving problems.”
“As difficult as it can be to find genuine inner calm, it is the key to creating peace in the world as we know it. The world will not change until we do, and there is nothing the world can deliver to us that will give us the peace we crave. Peace comes not from the world, but from God.”
“My problems are all behind me!”
“Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else”
“All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.”

Source : Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf
“There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.”

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