"Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed."

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

#Disappointment Quotes #Grief Quotes #Believe Quotes

“No, it has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox,”
“Chicago theater vs. New York theater. There's just nothing to say about it really. If you've seen Chicago theater, you know that the work is true to what is there on the page. It's not trying to present itself with some sort of flashy, concept-based thing. It's about the work, and it's about the acting you're about to watch. So acting-based theater feels like it was born there to me.”
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”
“Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.”
“Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.”

Source : Mary McLeod Bethune, Audrey Thomas McCluskey, Elaine M. Smith (2001). “Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World : Essays and Selected Documents”, p.60, Indiana University Press
“What London wants is a champion, a fighter for London. It doesn't want a patsy of George Osborne or David Cameron.”
“There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.”
“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”

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