"Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind and deaf and insensible to reality. There are times when only sorrow can give to sorrow."

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Source : Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

Winifred Holtby

#Happiness Quotes #Frustration Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.”

Source : "A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought". Book by Lloyd Albert Johnson, 2003.
“We are lovers, fear and I. She calls to me, and I let her in.”
“Come! let us take a moment's shelter under some roof Look! there - before you, a little way off There is an empty space Between truth and falsehood.”
“I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.”
“Jerk equals narcissist.Narcissists tend to be risk takers. Risk takers happen to do better in general in businesses. So jerk equals narcissist, equals risk taker.”
“Every video I do is over budget by the time I walk on set. I am massively extravagant in my personal habits.”
“What is it about men that make women so lonely?”
“I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever.”

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