"Believers are each other's mirrors."

-- Elif Safak

#Mirrors Quotes #Believer Quotes

“I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits”
“it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in this case embarrasses me because I am acutely conscious of how far short the book falls of the artistry I am struggling to achieve. It's like being caught half-dressed.”
“For black people in the western hemisphere, if you can't generate a mythology that creates models of heroism and power out of the mythology that you had, then that means that somehow the mythology you had was not only feeble and weak, but that you are ultimately a powerless people. That's a notion that, I think, that can't be accepted.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Loving words and deeds are the best alms.”
“Marriage - as well as erotic friendships and sexual liaisons -between members of contrasting races and religions will take place with greater frequency, and will be more accepted than it is today.”
“One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.”
“While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.”
“Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.”

Source : Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1783, Random House

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