“As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.”
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and let it come in”
“Said to Mitch Album in "Tuesday's with Morrie": "The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things and you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it! CREATE YOUR OWN!”
“Accept yourself, your physical condition and your fate as they are at the present moment.”
“Now is the time to work on becoming the kind of person you would like to be.”
“When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.”
“I believe that even though each person has an individual and unique self, the self means nothing outside the context of community or meaningful contact with other people.”
“Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live”
“Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?”
“Every day we feel further apart. And sometimes I think the harder I try to hold on, the more she tries to break away.”
“Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.”
“I learned at that moment that the devil, the true one, is people...”
“„Three more inches and you’d really be sexy.“ Three more inches? I’d be a skyscraper.”
BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
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