"Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair."

-- Kate Morton

#Despair Quotes #Action Quotes #Oneself Quotes

“I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.”

Source : Loretta Chase (2004). “Miss Wonderful”, p.249, Penguin
“If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.”
“Some are wandering into forbidden paths because they are seeking popularity with their peers, even to the extent of doing things they know are wrong. They cannot stand criticism or ridicule and will not take a firm stand against wrongdoing.”
“There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment.”
“When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.”
“What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.”
“The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.”
“We are taught to reinvent ourselves all the time. And nature is teaching us. What is necessary for us to do to create sustainability? There's a shift that has to take hold in our thinking, and it's hard to know when it's going to click for the larger percentage of us.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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