"In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness."

-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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“Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can.”
“Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn't about surviving this, it's about understanding this.”
“And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.”

Source : Robert Jay Lifton (2011). “Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“Life is supposed to be lived for God and for others.”
“Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind of struggle to get there.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 23, 2013
“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”
“Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a lack of an institutional framework.”
“I don't really know anything about fashion, I just kind of wing it and do what I want at the time.”

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