"True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances."

-- Daisaku Ikeda

#Strong Quotes #Mean Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.”
“I've always felt, and I don't like to say this because I sound like an ex-patriot, I always feel quite a bit more comfortable sometimes in Canada. For a variety of reasons. I just think it's a politer place. Kind of. You don't have quite the population to deal with but you don't immediately get into skirmishes with everybody. If you had any passport, any terrorist would let the Canadians off the plane.”
“Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements”
“Why couldn't I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown's niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or that, stitching tea towels and petticoats and putting aside a little each month for a set of Spode Buttercup dishes.”

Source : Kirby Larson (2013). “Hattie Ever After”, p.4, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.”
“Not to know what things in life require remedying is a crime... It leaves you at the mercy of events - it lets life manipulate you - instead of training you to manipulate life.”
“Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?”
“I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men: A Novel”, p.84, Macmillan

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