"Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow."

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Source : Carol Anshaw (2012). “Lucky in the Corner: A Novel”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Carol Anshaw

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“How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?”

Source : FaceBook post by Donald Miller from Jan 13, 2014
“Quoting Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998) US civil rights leader We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.”
“The greatest crisis of our lives is neither economic, intellectual, nor even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of imagination. We get stuck on our paths because we are unable to reimagine our lives differently from what they are right now. We hold on desperately to the status quo, afraid that if we let go, we will be swept away by the torrential undercurrents of our emptiness.”

Source : FaceBook post by Marc Gafni from Aug 26, 2015
“I like to make movies about how people actually live, realistically.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.”
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is”
“Are you calling me a weirdo? Highest honor I can bestow.”
“Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.”

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