“Love isn’t really about what we think of the other person, but how we feel about ourselves when we are with that person.”
― Jeanne Mackin, quote from The Beautiful American
“That’s the problem with the finite. You can open only one door at a time, and you’ll never know what was behind the door you didn’t open.”
― Jeanne Mackin, quote from The Beautiful American
“I was happy, and nothing in the world can make you oblivious to your surroundings like happiness.”
― Jeanne Mackin, quote from The Beautiful American
“Love was love, but art was art and though he mixed the two a little, he never confused them.”
― Jeanne Mackin, quote from The Beautiful American
“sillage, what remains when all else has left. “Come on,”
― Jeanne Mackin, quote from The Beautiful American
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“This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier.
(Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier to, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate . . .)”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from Moving Pictures
“Each of his son's had been his favorite child.”
― Elizabeth Strout, quote from Olive Kitteridge
“Humility is not an attribute but a key to development.”
― Zoltan Andrejkovics, quote from The Invisible Game: Mindset of a Winning Team
“Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.”
― Daniel Kahneman, quote from Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Things are more exciting when one unveils them bit by bit. One looses interest fast when they’re too easy.”
― Cristiane Serruya, quote from Trust: A New Beginning
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