"Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality."

-- John Gardner

#Reality Quotes #Self Quotes #Addiction Quotes

“My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.”
“Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.”
“After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her. The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made.”
“Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.”
“Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.”

Source : Joseph Sugarman (1980). “Success forces”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
“The sword of Mahomet, and the Coran, are the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and Truth, which the world has yet known.”

Source : "The Life of Mahomet: From Original Sources".
“The fourth major league game I ever saw in person, I was in uniform”
“Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.”

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