"Happy the man who can count his sufferings."

-- Ovid

#Men Quotes #Suffering Quotes #He Man Quotes

“The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.”
“At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.”
“She looked at him gravely. "You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it.”

Source : Lynn Kurland (2011). “Spellweaver”, p.108, Penguin
“At the end of the day, right now, right here, wherever you are, you can make a choice to be present and happy and fulfilled.”
“For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.”
“Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.”
“I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.”
“When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for the race increase tenfold, your admiration and attachment to a particular party or opinion fall away altogether.”

Source : Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1902). “John Ingelsant [by J.H. Shorthouse].”

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