"All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves."

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Source : Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.259, Litres

Amelia Barr

#Change Quotes #Leaving Quotes #Aging Quotes

“If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favor of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.”
“There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.”
“Faith is the substance of hope - of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. So if you can hope for it and imagine it, and keep imagining and hoping and seeing yourself driving a new car, or seeing yourself getting that job, or seeing yourself excel, seeing yourself help that person - that is faith.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2010.
“I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.”
“Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.”

Source : Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The bottom line is, if you're not the one controlling your learning, you're not going to learn as well.”
“Like species, couples die out or evolve.”

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