"Just 'cause you're following a well-marked trail don't mean that whoever made it knew where they were goin'."

-- Texas Bix Bender

#Mean Quotes #Causes Quotes #Trails Quotes

“This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't.”
“Tennis has given me soul.”
“The more I get to know people, the less I know about people.”
“Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths.”
“"I would like to apologize" may sound like an apology, but it is no more an actual apology than saying "I would like to lose weight" makes you suddenly slimmer.”

Source : John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.200, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.”
“He stared down at me, and i examined his beautiful eyes up close, something i'd never tire of doing.”
“Why would any sensible human being put meat filled with ammonia in the mouths of their children?”

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