"Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing."

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Source : Pam Houston (2011). “Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories”, p.158, W. W. Norton & Company

Pam Houston

#Life Quotes #Giving Quotes #Receiving Quotes

“Foreign news is one of the most expensive kinds of news and, unlike in colonial days, one of the categories with the lowest levels of audience interest.”

Source : "The Romance and Reality of Foreign Reporting". Interview with Jack Shafer, www.slate.com. December 29, 2009.
“Guitar players never listen to lead singers.”
“Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.”
“As difficult as it can be to find genuine inner calm, it is the key to creating peace in the world as we know it. The world will not change until we do, and there is nothing the world can deliver to us that will give us the peace we crave. Peace comes not from the world, but from God.”
“It is a feeble compassion that pulls up short where self-interest begins.”
“Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.”
“It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.”
“Young men have visions, old men have dreams.”

Source : Red Smith (2013). “American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith (The Library of America)”, p.325, Library of America

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