Quotes
Authors
Janet McKenzie Hill

"In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often this exhilarating beverage, that 'comforteth the brain and heateth and helpeth digestion' is made muddy and ill-flavoured! ... You may roast the berries 'to the queen's taste,' and grind them fresh every morning, and yet, if the golden liquid be not prepared in the most immaculate of coffee-pots, with each return of morning, a new disappointment awaits you."

-- Janet McKenzie Hill

#Morning Quotes #Queens Quotes #Disappointment Quotes

“Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed.”
“You are not your mother, your father, your history, or your cultural influences. You are uniquely and originally you. Be bold and daring and fearless and unconventional. Be willing to use your voice in service to your soul. Go on. Rock that damn boat. The wave you create might just change the world...”

Source : FaceBook post by Cheryl Richardson from Nov 30, 2011
“We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.”
“What if you believed that everything in life was like a prize? What if you thought of the world as a big random drawing, and you were always winning things, the world offering them up with a big grin, like an emcee's: Here you go, Hollis. Here is a motorcycle. Here is a little boy who loves you. Here is a weird experience, here is something bad that you should mull over because it will make you a better person. What if you could think that life was this free vacation you'd won, and you won just because you happened to be alive?”
“Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the artist by reproducing with mathematical precision the form and effect of objects and even that poetry which at once arises from any harmonious combination.”
“If your day is full of little mean, dark thoughts, is it any wonder you feel crabby? Maybe it's because you let your mind run wild like a dog putting its nose into garbage everywhere.”
“I've never felt a push to be stick thin. I work out and eat healthy, so mostly it's about being in shape and having energy.”

Source : "Lauren Conrad Talks to Glamour: "My Friends Are Everything". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. April 1, 2010.
“Kids can handle a lot more than you think they can. It's when they get to be grown up that you have to start worrying.”

Source : Anne Ursu (2011). “Breadcrumbs”, p.8, Harper Collins

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