"The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm."

-- Huston Smith

#Self Quotes #Enthusiasm Quotes

“Marriage is a garden that I'm constantly growing in.”
“The best patients are the worst patients. Nudge, nudge, nudge. Don't sit back and accept anything that fails to satisfy you. Speak up, protect your interests.”
“I don't go to church so much, the way my life is, but it's in me every day.”
“I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.”
“I frowned at the list. â€œSoâ€¦ Iâ€™ll go back and tell the Traynors that Iâ€™m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympicsâ€””
“People think that the art market is about opportunists and hedge-fund managers getting broken art, but what really happened is that there was a new configuration of bourgeois values in the U.S. and an acceptance among the bourgeoisie of contemporary art as an idea. I think that bourgeois people are horrible.”
“I really think you cannot ever escape your history, what you've done, who you are, and things you've tried to hide. Even if no one ever finds out the secret you're trying to keep, the cost of that keeping has been so great, that it's destroyed you anyway. In all my writing, there are people who desperately wish the past is not what it is.”
“I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.”

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