"When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice.... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative context, two versions, a positive and a negative. If you spill your milk, you're left with a glass which is either half empty or half full.... You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see."

-- Margaret Atwood

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“Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other.”
“The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud.”
“all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.”

Source : Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (1984). “Bread Not Stone: The Challenge of Feminist Biblical Interpretation”, Beacon Press (MA)
“I've never found it helpful to treat fate with a gentle hand. Everytime I've stroked, hopin' fer a favor, she's slapped me hand and laughed at me. If ye want something, take fate by the throat and shake it out o' her.”

Source : Karen Hawkins (2009). “Sleepless in Scotland”, p.82, Simon and Schuster
“The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.”
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
“Sometimes you have to accept how things are. You can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it hard. The choice is yours.”

Source : Susan Mallery (2012). “Almost Perfect”, p.161, Harlequin
“I wake up and I do class straight away, so that gives me a free day to do things.”

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