"Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people."

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Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#Men Quotes #People Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“The three most celebrated doctors on the island have been to see me. One sniffed at what I spat, the second tapped where I spat from, and the third sounded me and listened as I spat. The first said I was dead, the second that I was dying and the third that I'm going to die.”
“Life in general you gotta believe in you.... you live your life for you, you do what you do for you, because the moment you start to live your life for others you'll lose yaself within that. Focus on what it is you want to have. Go get it.”
“You don't need eyes to see, you need vision.”
“So if we can't express it or repress it, what do we do when we feel angry? The answer is to recognize the anger, but choose to respond to the situation differently. Easier said than done, right? Can you actually imagine trying to strong-arm your anger into another, more amicable feeling? It would never work. Determination alone won't work. It takes a new intelligence to understand and manage our emotions. By getting your head and heart in coherence and allowing the heart's intelligence to work for you, you can have a realistic chance of transforming your anger in a healthy way.”
“I find that the hot yoga is sort of a false thing, so your body temperature goes up and you can stretch and you can injure yourself a little bit easier than if you work yourself into... if you heat yourself up.”
“We are uncertain of the next step, but we are certain of God. Immediately we abandon to God, and do the duty that lies nearest, and He packs our life with surprises all the time.... Leave the whole thing to Him, it is gloriously uncertain how He will come in, but He will come.”
“People who say that small things don't bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.”
“First, we are born in the same galaxy. Born of the same speÂcies. Our lifeÂtimes overÂlap. The meetÂings between humans are so unlikely as to be miraÂcuÂlous. To laugh, to cry, and to fall in love. EveryÂone is made up of a colÂlecÂtion of 1% chances. Thus, I am dazzled by the fact that there are so many mirÂacles in this world.”

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