"I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness."

-- Charles Dickens

#Humble Quotes #Desire Quotes #Increase Quotes

“I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner.”
“If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam.”
“[T]here is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels.”
“Don't judge from the outside. Like any beautiful rose has thorns... the more a person appears nice on the outside, the more you should doubt the inside.”
“We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.”
“Everyone has to do 20 push-ups for the mellophones shorts.”
“Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.”

Source : Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.179, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I do think that the instant nature of the reaction now, I do think it has an effect, that people's instant reactions to things are valid and valuable. But they're not always right, and they're not always capturing the full reality.”

Source : "Farewell to the General". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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