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"I have stalled on this massive tome but I'm not giving up on it yet as it is very rich with its content." — Oct 30, 2024 01:50PM
"I have stalled on this massive tome but I'm not giving up on it yet as it is very rich with its content." — Oct 30, 2024 01:50PM
“The officials are very well educated, but only in a one-sided way; in his own department, an official will see a whole train of ideas behind a single word, but you can spend hours on end explaining matters from another department to him, and while he may nod politely he doesn’t understand a bit of it. Of course that’s all perfectly natural, you just have to think of the little official matters affecting yourself, tiny things that an official will deal with merely by shrugging his shoulders, you just have to understand that thoroughly, and then you will have plenty to occupy your mind all your life and never run out of ideas.”
― The Castle
― The Castle
“Love, he found, was a jail. It trapped, and it clipped wings. It dragged you down, forced you to places you didn’t want to go”
― The Kiss Quotient
― The Kiss Quotient
“If you can't climb the highest mountain any more, go to the closest hill. It is better than staying at the bottom thinking you can't do it.”
― LESSONS in LIFE: Achieving a better you through self-reflection
― LESSONS in LIFE: Achieving a better you through self-reflection
“The audience sat back, relaxed in their chairs, awaiting the expected mellow retrospective of a revered septuagenarian. Instead, Rogers rocked them with a series of challenges. He urged school psychologists not to content themselves merely with treating students damaged by an obsolete and irrelevant educational system but to change the system, to participate in designing an educational experience that would liberate the students’ curiosity and enhance the joy of learning.”
― A Way Of Being
― A Way Of Being
“Reading can seriously damage your Ignorance”
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