George Vaillant Quotes
Joy is connection... The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better.
Quotes to Explore
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
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You've gotta know what death is to know life!
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Intentions count in your actions.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.
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All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.
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They shift the moving toyshop of their heart.
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New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.
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The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.
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Life's cares are comforts; such by Heav'n design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched.
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A man is just a woman’s strategy for making other women.
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If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
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There is absolutely a side of me that people don't know. I'm not myself on Snapchat or Instagram. That's totally not me.
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We're living in hard times.
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Square meals, not adventurous ones, are what you should seek.
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I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.
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For an interesting nonfiction read, I really enjoyed 'Quiet' by Susan Cain. I read it with my husband, who is a true introvert, whereas I am an introvert masquerading as an extrovert.
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Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
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Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know what this connection means for the kind of people they are becoming and for the kind of history-making in which they might take part.
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What was his surprise and his joy when, on looking himself over, he saw that he was no longer a Marionette, but that he had become a real live boy!
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Joy is connection... The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better.
