"If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches"

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Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.373, Anchor

Andrew Davidson

#Pain Quotes #Lessons Quotes #Teach Quotes

“Web standards keep you out of the dustbin of history.”
“Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.”
“A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.”
“I get on with actors, and when I'm doing a theatre show, it's great being with them all the time. But we're all alike, and it's much nicer being with people who are different.”
“The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.”

Source : Lisa Alther (2017). “The Novels of Lisa Alther: Kinflicks, Original Sins, and Five Minutes in Heaven”, p.144, Open Road Media
“Frugality is misery in disguise.”
“The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.”

Source : Czeslaw Milosz, “Account”
“I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.”

Source : William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.69, London : R. Bentley

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