"I gave up being a conventional person a long time ago. Things have been so much more exciting since I did."

-- Dolores Hitchens

#Long Quotes #Exciting Quotes #Gave Up Quotes

“So Kim Kardashian is getting a divorce, 72 days after a wedding that is variously reported to have cost $10 million or more. Just to put that in perspective, that sum could have built 200 schools in poor countries around the world for kids who desperately want an education. Then Kardashian could have helped transform the world, not just entertain it. And the schools would have lasted incomparably longer than her marriage.”
“We encourage one another in mediocrity.”
“Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth...”
“The trouble with most people is that they want to know the way and the channels beforehand. They want to tell Supreme Intelligence just how their prayers should be answered. They do not trust the wisdom and ingenuity of God.”
“Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.”

Source : Amy Bloom (2010). “Love Invents Us”, p.198, Vintage
“My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who has to keep going to the front door to make certain that he's locked it.”
“Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.”
“We could fight the fuss till we get like friends, Or somebody bite the dust and we split like ends. Even in our wildest moments, girl, I'm on it cause you're worth it. Practice makes perfect, so we fightin' for a purpose.”

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