"He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed."

-- George Orwell

#Pain Quotes #Effort Quotes #Special Quotes

“Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.”
“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.”
“If you only get one song, it has to be Bullfrog Blues”
“Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.”
“When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury”
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
“As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.”
“That was when I found out that the best way in the world to make yourself feel better when you have hit bottom is to try to get somebody else to feel better. There are certain things in life that are truly worth knowing, and that is one of the big ones.”

Source : Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.256, A&C Black

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