"There's the life we dream, the life we deserve, and the life we get. I'll take what I got over what I deserve any day."

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Source : Kate Jacobs (2008). “Comfort Food”, p.174, Penguin

Kate Jacobs

#Dream Quotes #Deserve Quotes

“We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.”
“The feeling of righteousness is the core mood alteration among religious addicts. Religious addiction is a massive problem in our society. It may be the most pernicious of all addictions because itâ€™s so hard for a person to break his delusion and denial. How can anything be wrong with loving God and giving your life for good works and service to mankind?”
“Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves, about the audacity and strength to proclaim, create, and evolve into who we know ourselves to be. Itâ€™s okay if your personal definition is in a constant state of flux as you navigate the world.”

Source : Janet Mock (2014). “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More”, p.172, Simon and Schuster
“You cannot go into the same water twice.”
“Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.”
“Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.”
“There is nothing else for you to do but to truly love and nourish the emotionally and spiritually starved parts of you that are crying out for your attention. Are you loving all of yourself?”
“I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?”

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