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No one? can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time Karen Horney
I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry. Stephen Dunn
Paul Harvey quote: "Too many Christians are no longer fishers of men, but the..."
Too many Christians are no longer fishers of men, but the keepers of the aquarium. Paul Harvey
David Sedaris quote: "You have how many children in your family?" the teacher would..."
You have how many children in your family?" the teacher would ask. "I'm guessing you must be Catholic, am I right? David Sedaris
L. M. Montgomery quote: "You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne,..."
You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible. L. M. Montgomery
Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Besides which, she would never understand me because I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. Jack Kerouac
The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much, it's true), they go to the movies, they make love to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their wives and husbands... and all the time those birds are there, clinging to them and pecking away little bits of flesh. Stephen King
Taylor Swift quote: "Beauty is sincerity. There are so many different ways someone..."
Beauty is sincerity. There are so many different ways someone can be beautiful. Taylor Swift
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment. Gilbert K. Chesterton
So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God. But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions. Victor Hugo
Anne Frank quote: "You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people,..."
You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only. Anne Frank
Elaine Dundy quote: "He hated so many people I hardly know anyone any more"
He hated so many people I hardly know anyone any more Elaine Dundy
Now, there are many millions in their sects and churches who feel the order, 'Do thou,' and throw their weight into obedience. And there are millions more who feel predestination in 'Thou shalt.' Nothing they may do can interfere with what will be. But 'Thou mayest'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win. John Steinbeck
I have never had much need for companionship, unless it was the companionship of someone I could call a friend. Certainly I have seldom wished the conversation of strangers or the sight of strange faces. I believe rather that when I was alone I felt I had in some fashion lost my individuality; to the thrush and the rabbit I had been not Severian, but Man. The many people who like to be utterly alone, and particularly to be utterly alone in a wilderness, do so, I believe, because they enjoy... Gene Wolfe

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