"I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down."

-- Tana French

#Hurt Quotes #Fall Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I had gone through life thinking that I was better than everyone else and at the same time, being afraid of everyone. I was afraid to be me.”

Source : Dennis Wholey (1984). “Courage to Change”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“First loves were powerful and private,and they stayed with you for a very long time. A lifetime.(...) There would always be a small,intimate piece of your heart tucked away for the person you loved first.”

Source : Lauren Weisberger (2014). “Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns”, p.298, Simon and Schuster
“I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people ... to me, that's what the emerging game is all about.”
“Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.”
“There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.”
“My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.”
“The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer.”
“In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems.”

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