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1 " I know exactly who you are.” I took a step forward, and another, until I was standing right in front of him. Then my words turned to ice. “You are the selfish, spineless son of a king who is too afraid to be his own man. You would rather hide behind your status than fight for something that could actually mean something.” There, that felt good. “And it’s a shame, really it is, because, according to you, I was the one true friend you had. "
― Rachel E. Carter , Apprentice (The Black Mage, #2)
2 " As long as you were comfortable with yourself and believed in yourself, then you could just throw out all that nonsense of worrying about your status and " success" and other people's opinions. "
3 " It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By " we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: " Would someone please acknowledge me? "
4 " They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom. "
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
5 " The problem with people today, is, they have religions but they have no spirituality. They go to church but they cannot even manage the condition of their own souls. They take pride to state the name of their religions and broadcast these things on facebook and everywhere, thinking that the nature of their religion represents the nature of their spirit. It's just the same as how they present their cars, houses, and degrees to the world— to stand as a representation of what they are. That's not spirituality; that's still materialism. Yes, perhaps your car, house and degree represents what you've achieved (or what your status in society is); but your religion does not represent what your spirit is like. You cannot go to a certain church or belong to a certain group of people and have that be a replica of your spirit. "
― C. JoyBell C.