"There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or maybe it never really lets go at all."

-- Anna Quindlen

#Letting Go Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Groups Quotes

“People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.”
“In fact, you donâ€™t have a soul, you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body or your mind. You are you.”
“Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution.”

Source : "How Will Humans Evolve?". bigthink.com. 2017.
“The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.”
“Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.”
“Every man's disease is his personal property.”

Source : Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 5: 154 (1929)
“Small groups have always been the locus of change. What they do, in a sometimes offhand way, is constellate new cultural forms and give birth to the unexpected. Sometimes the talk is the thing, sometimes the feeling. When we risk talking about something we really care about it's infectious. Like any good infection, such talk can produce heat, a fever of intellectual excitement.”
“Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.”

Source : Mikhail Lermontov (2009). “A Hero Of Our Time”, p.64, The Overlook Press

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