"Some people are not capable of giving you what you're trying to get from them."

-- Sonia Friedman

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The man who says that he does not deserve his wife is probably right, but not for the reasons he thinks.”

Source : Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.32, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“The best Paris I know now is in my head.”
“Oh well, I will say here, knowing each man, let you find a good wife too, and love her as hard as you can.”

Source : Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.168, Univ of California Press
“Every time there was an unspoken promise that this would be the last time, but it would only be the last time until the next time.”

Source : Tom Upton (2008). “Mourning Doves”, p.139, Tom Upton
“People like Mr Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible.”
“We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put a little cheer into some discouraged heart, make the path a little smoother for someoneâ€™s tired feet, or help some fainting robin unto its nest again. This is right. We cannot put too great emphasis upon the duty of giving happiness and cheer to others. But it is no less a duty that we should be happy and cheerful ourselves.”
“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”

Source : "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.
“I think as humans we're nostalgic creatures and that's what we do. We go back to things that have a semblance of something comforting, or enough time passes that it seems cool again, or maybe it's something that some people didn't even experience.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

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