Quotes
Authors
Katrina Onstad
"One study found that volunteering actually makes people feel they have more time, not less. A good weekend usually involves more than just passive leisure, like spectator sports or binge-watching The Crown. What's more edifying are activities that generate meaning or purpose." --
Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
Katrina Onstad
#Sports Quotes
#Weekend Quotes
#Volunteer Quotes
“Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last.”
“The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.”
Source : "A Conversation with Donna Tartt, Author of THE LITTLE FRIEND". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.
“I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.”
“I am who I am, a Southie.”
“Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.”
“Tired of being unhappy? Fix it.”
“In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin.”
“So far, I am a cancer survivor, but cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties,”
