"I love the mystery, the reconstruction of history, and the way past and future define each other."

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Elizabeth Crook

#Past Quotes #Way Quotes #Mystery Quotes

“We hurt each other, is the point. Hurt, annoy, embarrass, but move on. People, it just doesn't work that way. Your own feelings get so complicated that you forget the ways another human being can be vulnerable. You spend a lot of energy protecting yourself. All those layers and motivations and feelings. You get hurt, you stay hurt sometimes. The hurt affects your ability to go forward. And words. All the words between us. Words can be permanent. Certain ones are impossible to forgive.”
“Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.”

Source : "Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead". Book by Nell Scovell and Sheryl Sandberg, March 11, 2013.
“Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for.”
“Ben Skinner's brains and courage take us into the belly of the beast and expose the ugly truth of modern slavery. Instead of sensation, A Crime So Monstrous gives us desperately needed insight and analysis. This is an important book, the first deep look into America's confused relationship with human trafficking and slavery today. Skinner's balanced dissection of our government's haphazard policies will be controversial, but it can also be the foundation for a new anti-slavery agenda, one that ends the political games being played with the lives of slaves.”
“If you can play the first ten or fifteen moves in just as many minutes, you can be in a state of bliss for the rest of the game. If, on the other hand, Bronstein thinks for forty minutes about his first move, then time trouble is inevitable.”
“Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.”
“Pause and remember - You will have a lot more time and energy to spend on yourself when you stop worrying and wasting time on how others need to change.”
“The music is not the truth.”

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