"I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects."

-- David Brainerd

#Retirement Quotes #Self Quotes #Denial Quotes

“Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it.”
“My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.”

Source : Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
“It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.”
“A song is a poem set to music.”

Source : Tom T. Hall (1987). “The songwriter's handbook”, Rutledge Hill Pr
“I don't believe in journalists having 'responsibility.'”
“How do you summon up courage to dismiss a cat who is paying you a compliment of sitting on your lap?”

Source : Derek Tangye (2014). “A Cat in the Window: Tales from a Cornish Flower Farm”, p.37, Hachette UK
“Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.”

Source : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (1991). “Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler : the rediscovered writings”, Thomas Nelson Inc
“How few of us appreciate the fact that a very great deal of physical suffering in after life comes from bad mental training in childhood! I do not mean suffering of an imaginary kind; I mean disease which may entirely ruin a life which might have been of use to the world, and which surely would have been happier but for the lost health. Many a chronic invalid might have preserved his health had he been taught to use his brain properly when a child.”

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