“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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“Every adult is the creation of a child.”
― Chris Fuhrman, quote from The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
“Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.”
― Carol Tavris, quote from Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
“More importantly, our software worked. I don't just mean that it didn't bump, or that it performed according to the written specifications, or that it was efficient in producing reports. It really worked”
― Eliyahu M. Goldratt, quote from The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
“Ask me something that will make me think. Something I'll have to wonder whether I should tell you the answer to or not. ~ Evie Snow”
― Carrie Hope Fletcher, quote from On the Other Side
“My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.”
― Ishmael Beah, quote from A Long Way Gone
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