"Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain."

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Source : Neal Shusterman (2012). “Downsiders”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

Neal Shusterman

#Hurt Quotes #Children Quotes #Pain Quotes

“To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling.”
“I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.”
“One always imagines that the days that change oneâ€™s life must be marked with something extraordinary in natureâ€”storms and lightning, darkness at noon, and so on. In truth they are indistinguishable from any other, which is one reason we feel mocked, as if the world is telling us we are inconsequential.”

Source : Margaret George (2011). “Elizabeth I: The Novel”, p.452, Penguin
“The main thing you got to remember is that everything in the world is a hustle.”
“One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is "Fall down 7 times, stand up 8".”
“It's fitting, then, that we begin this exploration of ourselves and of the world with music, and more specifically with a musical quality called vibrato. This pulsation that wells up within the sounded note can lead us to what is most spontaneous and creative in human life, and possibly even to deeper mysteries--to powers of knowing and doing which we have lost or given away during the epoch of civilization, and which perhaps we may now regain.”
“Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster.”
“It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.”

Source : Cinda Williams Chima (2011). “The Wizard Heir”, p.243, Hachette UK

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