"I used to be very self-conscious. I used to wish I was pretty. My cousin Georgia always taught me that if you smile, people will like you. Sometimes people will say something you don't like, and you get angry a bit, but you just smile. You let it go by, even if you really would like to choke 'em. By smiling, I think I've made more friends than if I was the other way."

-- Ella Fitzgerald

#Cousin Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes

“I think were all really strong and we just need to keep working really hard. If we go out there and do our best well win again. All we need to do is hit.”
“... Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney." I went cold. "I don't like it. I never liked it." Soda just looked at me. "You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat." "I don't like it," I repeated.”
“Despite all those years of abusing your lungs, your kidneys, your liver the only thing you've had removed is your kids.”
“...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.”

Source : Arthur Ransome (2013). “Fishing”, p.9, Cambridge University Press
“I thought my chances to make the Braves were better and that they were being fairer to me, paying me more money to play in a lower classification ... Besides, the Giants spelled my name "Arron" on their telegram.”
“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.”
“We lost our way, our society lost our way.”
“A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.”

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