"We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures."

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Source : Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3859, Delphi Classics

Fanny Burney

#Complaining Quotes #Affliction Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.”
“The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.”
“We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by,without accepting him or her,or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation in order to find that Soulmate. And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.”
“I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.”
“My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there.”
“We are each born into a situation-a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation-and born into the stories told of each of these.”
“I read more and more and I came across this character, Caroline Weldon. Sometimes in history, you find these people that no one would dare create. They're too mad.”
“Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.”

Source : "Tony Kushner At The School Of Visual Arts: 'Artists Know That Diligence Counts As Much, If Not More, As Inspiration'". SVA Commencement Speech, from School of Visual Arts, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2010.

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