"The ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect."

-- Walter Lord

“I do firmly believe that universal forces are at work that pull us inexorably toward the deserving results of our actions.”
“Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.”

Source : "The Doll". Book by Bolesław Prus, 1889.
“Consciousness is something we do.”
“One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.”

Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.”
“When people don't comply, things - bad things will happen afterwards.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.”
“My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices”

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