"Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being."

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John Updike

#Acceptance Quotes #Self Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“The earth itself is a great big magnet.”

Source : Edward Leedskalnin (1988). “Magnetic Current”, p.4, Health Research Books
“Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.”
“Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things about them?”
“Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.”

Source : Lisa See (2010). “Shanghai Girls”, p.42, A&C Black
“It would be contrary to the spirit of the American Government to use force to subjugate the South.”
“The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.”
“Living, we fret. Dying, we live. Iâ€™ll keep that in mind. Iâ€™ll be of good cheer.”

Source : Robert Silverberg (2009). “Dying Inside”, p.302, Macmillan
“Before slavery, Africa had a culture. We had medicine and our cure for malaria. Slavery brought diseases that we were not used to; slavery brought industry and people were criticizing industry way back as 2,000 years ago, that it was going to pollute the air, sea. Industry is not the way. We must deal with nature.”

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