"There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens."

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Source : Elizabeth Berg (2012). “Range of Motion: A Novel”, p.193, Ballantine Books

Elizabeth Berg

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Office Quotes

“I asked myself what Palestinians would do if Israel disappeared-if everything not only went back to the way it was before 1948 but if all the Jewish people abandoned the Holy Land and were scattered again. And for the first time, I knew the answer. We would still fight. Over nothing. Over a girl without a head scarf. Over who was toughest and most important. Over who would make the rules and who would get the best seat.”
“One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two worlds mingle breath through rips in the sky, the strange becomes stranger, and many things may come to pass that few imaginations could encompass.”
“I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Being intercontinental champion doesn't mean you're a champ. It means you're the future.”
“Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.”

Source : "Jeremy Hardy: Caustic comic". news.bbc.co.uk. April 5, 2002.
“It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me would just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I know how much worse things could be.”
“Loathesome I am, and evil. You can mock me for that. But leave my pain alone!”
“As the sun is to the earth, so Honour is to a man. without it, he will not flourish. All else may fail you, but honour is the treasure no one can take from you, the shield no one can penetrate unless you let them. Honour is beautiful and clean. Honour is sacred.”

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