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people need to talk, and often a willingness to sit and listen is the greatest kindness one person can offer to another.
“What Juggie said, “They’re looking after us,” echoed what Zhaanat had said about these lights being the spirits of the dead, joyous, free, benevolent. Even cold to the bone, Millie watched them for a while longer, deciding one explanation did not rule out the other, that charged electrons could be spirits, that nothing ruled out anything else, that mathematics was a rigorous form of madness,”
― The Night Watchman
― The Night Watchman
“Nearly every guy I've dated believed they should already be famous, believed that greatness was their destiny and they were already behind schedule. An early moment of intimacy often involved a confession of this sort: a childhood vision, teacher's prophecy, a genius IQ. At first, with my boyfriend in college, I believed it, too. Later, I thought I was just choosing delusional men. Now I understand it's how boys are raised to think, how they are lured into adulthood. I've met ambitious women, driven women, but no woman has ever told me that greatness was her destiny.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ARISTOTLE”
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ARISTOTLE”
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“Children have a real failure of imagination when it comes to thinking of the adults in their lives as having done anything of interest, anything at all, in the time known as before.”
― This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
― This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
“There are always those perfect times with the people we love, those moments of joy and equality that sustain us later on. I am living that time with my husband now. I try to study our happiness so that I will be able to remember it in the future, just in case something happens and we find ourselves in need. These moments are the foundation upon which we build the house that will shelter us into our final years, so that when love calls out, “How far would you go for me?” you can look it in the eye and say truthfully, “Farther than you would ever have thought was possible.”
― This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
― This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
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