"A baby was a fact. It was a being with a mind and a nature, and you could feel about it any way you liked, but a baby wouldn't care. Just by existing, it demanded that you believe in a future: the future it would crawl in, walk in, live in. A baby was a piece of time; it was a promise you made that the world made back to you."

-- Justin Cronin

#Baby Quotes #Believe Quotes #Promise Quotes

“To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.”
“She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.”
“A nation of intellectuals, a nation of thugs/Jesus is hate, a nation of Satan is love!”
“I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'”
“I wasn't allowed to do commercials. I wasn't allowed to do TV series. I wasn't allowed to do soaps or basically anything that would mean I missed too much school.”
“You pick pieces of things you've experienced in life to make it real to yourself.”
“Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.”

Source : James Ellroy (1997). “White Jazz”, Ballantine Books
“The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be able to have multiple â€œfirstâ€ things.”

Source : "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 15, 2014.

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