"The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him."

-- Laurence Sterne

#Adversity Quotes #Comfort Quotes #May Quotes

“So many people are struggling to create happiness while their brain is inundated by noise. If your brain is receiving too much information, it automatically thinks you're under threat and scans the world for the negative first. Because the brain is limited, whatever you attend to first becomes your reality.”

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“Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and smart and inviting, and in the three seconds you have to look at her, you actually fall in love, and in those moments, you can actually know the taste of her kiss, the feel of her skin against yours, the sound of her laugh, how she'll look at you and make you whole. And then she's gone, and in the five seconds afterwards, you mourn her loss with more sadness than you'll ever admit to.”
“Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.”
“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
“These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.”
“And when your minister asks you for money for missionary purposes, tell him there are higher, and holier, and nobler missions to be performed at home. When he asks for colleges to educate ministers, tell him you must educate woman, that she may do away with the necessity of ministers, so that they may be able to go to some useful employment.”
“Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it”
“Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.”

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