Edward George, Baron George famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves
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No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy.
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Beware of parting! The true sadness is not in the pain of the parting; it is in the when and the how you are to meet again with the face about to vanish from your view.
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Will our souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream?
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I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.
-- Edward George, Baron George
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If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.
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You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.
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No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.
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The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.
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Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.
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Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a condition exacerbated by Hitler's strictly vegetarian diet.
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suffering is the essence of success!!!
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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.
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