Quotes of John Portman

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Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

- John Portman

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“ Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options. ”

- Bill Hicks

“ I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why ”

- Mark Twain

“ The key to success is not through achievement but through enthusiasm. ”

- Malcolm Forbes

“ It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ ?Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ”

- Voltaire

“ It's all a conundrum, isn't it— forgetting the mixed tape in the car... feeling forgotten when... so many people are thinking of us? Drinking when we should be eating... sleeping when we should be making love... thanking God above when we don't have enough? Each day is a mad rush to something irrelevant. We measure our pricelessness by our successes, which... still equals money. Life goes by so quick when each day is a mad rush to slow motion. We eat fast food so that we can go to bed on time, but, trust me, everyone wakes up too late. ”

- Heather Angelika Dooley

“ Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Every man is a boyfriend. But some people do not have the ability to become husbands. ”

- Sajal Ahmed

“ There’s only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it’s all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, ‘I love you.’ ”

- K. Flay

“ The human tendency is to resemble or imitate those we admire; the common result is the delusion, that to emulate another’s personality creates a pseudo persona, measurably dissimilar from our own. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Where wild souls meet wild lovers is where hurricanes are made. ”

- ventum

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter. ”

- Melissa Marr

“ How can I put the Auras back in the chest?” I asked, terror boiling inside my stomach. “You can’t. Not if those that were or will be struck by them won’t be eager to express their feelings and let you help them. You do not change people, dearie. It’s the people that change themselves. You’re the Guardian, but they’re the bearers,” the Oracle whispered. “I’m no Guardian. I’m doomed!” I said and I knew that this was true. ”

- Victoria Moschou

“ The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. ”

- Karl Lagerfeld

“ Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. ”

- Amit Ray

“ Never run from the truth. It is always there; it never changes – save your energy. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ And during, I realized that the labels didn’t matter, because when two people feel that sort of pull toward each other, it just works, and the only label that mattered was that I was in love. Totally, fully, ecstatically. ”

- Bill Konigsberg

“ Live your life, no matter what that life is. ”

- Corey Taylor