"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward."

-- Margaret Barber

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Memories Quotes

“And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life”
“You really can't worry about stuff you can't control... You need to focus on getting where you need to be and not worry about what could have been and what should have been.”
“Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1941). “Opinions of Oliver Allston”, New York, Dutton
“There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values that brook no compromise, and I would count among them integrity, fairness, and the avoidance of cruelty. But I have never accepted the argument that principle is compromised by judging each situation on its own merits, with due appreciation of the idiosyncrasy of human motivation and fallibility.”
“We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in a world where we don’t have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning.”
“It's the same things your whole life. 'Clean up your room!', 'Stand up straight!', 'Pick up your feet!', 'Take it like a man!', 'Be nice to your sister!', 'Don't mix beer and wine, ever!'. Oh yeah, 'Don't drive on the railroad track!'”
“I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.”
“If you really hate me, you should at least have the courtesy to take out a piece of paper and write it down and mail it to me. If you're a worthy nemesis, I want to see your handwriting. I want to see your name and your address, and if you don't have the guts to give me those, then you're not a worthy nemesis.”

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