"If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head."

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Source : "Hope and Help for Your Nerves".

Claire Weekes

#Education Quotes #Wall Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“It is not my behavior to either wear minimum clothes, to band or to even be comfortable with a sex-symbol label. I just want to do fine work instead of sporting such meaningless tags. Sex sells, but to a small extent, not always. And this is what filmmakers have to accept. The exposure has to be significant to the film and its characters and not forced for the sake of titillation. On the contrary, some of the greatest Indian films have been devoid of all these sexual trappings. I know my comfort zone in today's Indian culture and society.”
“An Affront to the Rule of Law and to the Constitution Itself”
“It is only the happy who are hard, Gilles. I think perhaps it is better for the world if - if one has a broken heart. One is quick to recognise it, elsewhere. And one has time to think about other people, if there is nothing left to hope for any more.”

Source : Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”
“Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating.”
“I'm pretty sure people thought I was like a dope rapper.”
“We are apart and alone, as we must, but at least we are alone together.”
“These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.”

Source : Interview in "The Los Angeles Examiner", August 1, 1926.
“Tacos." "Tacos?" I echoed. This seemed to amuse him. "Tomatoes, lettuce, cheese." "I know what a taco is!”

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