"The degree of complications and unhappiness in a person's life corresponds to the degree to which he dwells on the way he thinks the world ought to be rather than the way it really is. and being grateful it isn't worse, while trying to make it better."

-- Robert Ringer

#Gratitude Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.”
“I have never worn a watch. I did at 17 and it annoyed me.”

Source : "Eve Best: 'Webster is like learning to eat with a chainsaw'". Interview With Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.
“Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to?”
“It breaks my heart to know that millions of gay Americans still can't marry the one they love and I can. That makes no sense”
“Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.”
“Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does.”
“T's [King James Bible] subject is majesty, not tyranny, and it's political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.”
“The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses.”

Source : Pete Rose, Whitehall, Hadlyme & Smith (1979). “Pete Rose: my life in baseball”, Doubleday Books

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