"a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in."

-- Betty MacDonald

#Pockets Quotes #Bitterness Quotes #Resentment Quotes

“Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.”
“I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.”
“The supportive care that we're able to provide in the United States is so much better, so much more sophisticated, than what's available in West Africa. ... So we can move that needle of survival way down. Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better than that here.”
“Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.”

Source : Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.94
“Your soul shines through even if you haven't got mascara on”

Source : Louise Rennison (2009). “Are these my basoomas I see before me? (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, Book 10)”, p.21, HarperCollins UK
“One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.”
“Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, one in all, and all in one.”

Source : John Marston (2014). “The Malcontent”, p.82, A&C Black
“It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”

Source : "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" bk. 1, l. 317 (1955)

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