Petrides School Quotes & Sayings

When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to you and to your life. If you were selfless, it would have to mean that you derive no personal pleasure or happiness from the company and the existence of the person you love, and that you are motivated only by self-sacrificial pity for that person's need of you. I don't have to point out to you that no one would be flattered by, nor would accept, a concept of that kind. Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person. — Ayn Rand

Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius."
pg248 Henry to Vlad & Joss — Heather Brewer

Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into. — Michel De Montaigne

I'm a better person when I'm with you. I don't want to stop being that person. I don't want you to go — Alex Flinn

Mama forbade me to attend the Exhibition after an over-heating spell, yet she insisted I gallivant in the park in the midafternoon sun. I almost wanted to pass out again just to spite her. — Susan Dennard

There are mysteries in your soul that will take a lifetime to uncover . . . and I want to know every one of them. — Lisa Kleypas

They had moved closer to one another to watch the dying moments of the day, this beautiful bright May day. — Guy De Maupassant

I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career. — J.G. Ballard

No one hates war more than those who fight — Ronie Kendig

What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else — Seth Godin

Damn, she's good."
"Of course she bloody is," Pearl murmured, her ace still stuffed against Jack's neck, even though she sounded like the prim English woman she was, her tone turning curt. "She's my mother. — Scarlett Dawn

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen. — Arthur Miller

I'm perpetually single. Being alone is not the same as being lonely. I like to do things that glorify being alone. I buy a candle that smells pretty, turn down the lights, and make a playlist of low-key songs. If you don't act like you've been hit by the plague when you're alone on a Friday night, and just see it as a chance to have fun by yourself, it's not a bad day. — Taylor Swift

Increase your self-awareness up to the point where you shouldn't depend on the opinions of others about who you truly are... — Assegid Habtewold