"It's funny how the world works, how we win and lose, how we can never really know what's ahead though we never stop planning. How we survive and move on. There's a sadness that comes with survival, but also more joy to be had."

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Source : Anna McPartlin (2008). “Pack Up the Moon”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

Anna McPartlin

#Moving Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Winning Quotes

“I think the American people, understandably, have sort of lost faith in the United Nations.”
“Homeopathy has been of tremendous value in reversing diseases such as diabetes, arthritis, bronchial asthma, epilepsy, skin eruptions, allergic conditions, mental or emotional disorders, especially if applied at the onset of the disease.”
“My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.”
“I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.”

Source : Stuart Cloete (1947). “The Third Way”
“God can make greatness out of a great mess”
“The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.”
“Despite the creations of new sections, secret intelligence activity remained mistrusted and neglected in military circles, although there were a few enthusiasts like Baden-Powell, who went on foreign trips disguised as a butterfly collector and regarded spying as sport.”

Source : Clive Ponting (1990). “Secrecy in Britain”

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