"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

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Source : Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

Margaret Halsey

#Character Quotes #People Quotes #Littles Quotes

“For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only one rag as their property, but it happens to be beautiful and pink and silk, beauty doesn't have to be separated.. ..I have always said that you shouldn't have biases, you shouldn't have prejudices. But before that (his trip to India around 1975, fh) I'd never been able to use purple, because it was too beautiful.”
“History teaches us hope.”
“We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.”
“Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on Godâ€™s grace and Godâ€™s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other peopleâ€”for beggars. We donâ€™t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.”
“Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.”
“Temptation is necessary to make us realize that we are nothing in ourselves.”
“You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.”
“What I do is work for three or four years and then I take a year off, and then I come back again and work for three or four years and then take another year off. It is not about just working and then writing for a year. That is not how it is structured. It is about doing very conscious goal-driven activities for four years and then taking a year off in complete surrender to discover facets of myself that I don't know exist and exploring interests with no commercial value associated with them at all.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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