"It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had."

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Source : Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

Ellen Glasgow

#Human Nature Quotes #Humans Quotes #Overestimate Quotes

“It's hard to not make a mistake at Darlington.”
“I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.”
“Essential to receiving divine forgiveness are personal, individual recognition and acceptance of our Father's mercy, made available to us by the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ and a renewed covenant to obey the principles of the gospel.”
“We no longer live in a post-Christian society, we live in an anti-Christian society, one in which the Christian faith is dismissed or ridiculed and Christians are considered suspect and their motives and behavior berated.”
“Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is vulnerable to oversimplified and glib imitativeness-even mimicry-and to the use of the gimmick.”

Source : Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”
“He didn't give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.”

Source : Jenny Han (2011). “We'll Always Have Summer”, p.281, Simon and Schuster
“Rain is something the democrats use to sell umbrellas.”
“In researching literary agents I did what the books tell you to do: I looked at the acknowledgments page of a book that was similar to mine. Happily, that author thanked his agent. I looked up the agent on the web and found out that he not only represented authors writing books similar to mine, but I knew some of his clients! So, I sent in the manuscript, and they decided to represent it.”

Source : Source: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.com

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