"You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave"

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Margaret Atwood

#Helping Quotes #Feels Quotes #Behave Quotes

“The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.”
“I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter of industry, as a stimulus to enterprise and as the most powerful restraint of public vice. . . . No government could be established on the same principle as that of the United States with a different code of morals.”
“Being on the cover of a magazine with my son is the best thing ever. It took me 18 years to get my first cover, he gets one at 8 months.”
“When bow-hunting, you find you get closer to the woodland critters. The flora and the forest floor becomes clearer. You look at things more closely. You're moreaware. You know the limited range of the bow is only 40 yards or so. You must try to outwait that approaching deer. Careful not to make the slightest movement or sound hoping that your scent won't suddenly waft his way. That's when you'll know for sure and appreciate deeply what bow-hunting is all about.”
“At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.”
“If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time.”

Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.”
“The moods of a river change from hour to hour and day to day. It can be still and serene as a glassy mirror, reflecting the clouds that pass over it and the trees on its banks. Or, when a light breeze springs up, the surface of the river may be broken into little diamond lights reflecting the distant sun.”

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