"There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine."

-- James Wolfe

#Loss Quotes #Choices Quotes #Difficulty Quotes

“The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.”
“I miss him, my lady.â€ â€œWell, he is now living adjacent. You can hardly miss him all that much.â€ â€œTrue. But we are no longer compatibleâ€”I am a werewolf; he is a vampire.â€ â€œSo?â€ â€œSo we cannot dance the same dance we used to.â€ Biffy was so sweet when he tried to be circumspect. Alexia shook her head at him. â€œBiffy, and I mean this in the kindest way possible: then you should change the music.â€ â€œVery good, my lady.”
“Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.”
“Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.”

Source : Dorothy Thompson (1957). “The Courage to be Happy”
“Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched.”
“Aspirations after the holy,--the only aspiration in which the human soul can be assured that it will never meet with disappointment.”

Source : Maria Jane McIntosh (1851). “Grace and Isabel: Or, to Seem and to be”, p.196
“We have a society that is going through life not talking about what's really hard about life and trying to pretend like everything's great when it's not. As a result, people feel more and more isolated.”
“The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.”

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