"Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you."

-- Yasmin Mogahed

#Hurt Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Taught Quotes

“Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.”
“Every photograph is altered, to one degree or another.”
“I don't think ultimately presidents are judged by crowd sizes at their inauguration. I think they're judged by their accomplishments.”
“Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink! Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'Jiminy Cricket, I feel sensational! My life is really in great shape! I think I'll become an alcoholic!' I firmly believe that when a shaking-to-pieces alcoholic says he needs a drink or he will die, he means it.”
“There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”
“For the record, a mechanical engineer is responsible for how just about anything is built. We make sure any type of structure or vehicle or roadway is strong, safe and will stay together.”

Source : Kristan Higgins (2013). “The Perfect Match”, p.136, HQN Books
“By that time it was already clear that the next prime minster was going to be Golda Meir, a woman whom I frankly detested - a mutual sentiment, I might add. I knew her as an opinionated, obstinate person, primitive in her outlook, rigid in her attitudes, with a genius for reaching and exploiting the deepest fears and prejudices of the Jewish masses. I was certain that with her as prime minister, all peace efforts would come to a total standstill.”

Source : "My Friend, the Enemy". Book by Uri Avnery, 1986.
“The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.”

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