"There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad."

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Source : Rachel Simon (2011). “The Story of Beautiful Girl”, p.189, Hachette UK

Rachel Simon

#Sadness Quotes #Rainy Day Quotes #Two Quotes

“I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.”
“Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.”

Source : "Building Your Business From the Ground Up or Licensing Your Idea: Which Is Right for You?" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2009.
“The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.”
“Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.”
“America is full of businesses bearing old Christian names, but which are really owned and run by Jews. Most of them have been acquired in the manner I have just described, the way the Jew creates something out of nothing (slow strangling). The Jew, better than anyone else in the world knows how to dispossess the poor and the members of the middle classes. To fit this case, the old P.T. Barnum adage needs only a little changing. A gentile enters business every minute, with two Jews waiting to take him out of it.”
“As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.”

Source : Luigi Russolo (1986). “The art of noises”, Pendragon Pr
“No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.”
“What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.”

Source : John Gresham Machen (1951). “What is Christianity?: And Other Addresses”

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