"Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days."

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Source : Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.180, Random House

Gail Caldwell

#Sadness Quotes #Feeling Sad Quotes #Assuming Quotes

“Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength.”
“Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.”
“Our training pushes us to develop a new set of instincts: instead of reacting to danger with a fight-or-flight adrenaline rush, we're trained to respond unemotionally by immediately prioritizing threats and methodically seeking to defuse them. We go from wanting to bolt for the exit to wanting to engage and understand what's going wrong, then fix it.”
“Embrace your complexity, stretch your creativity, and live up to your potential, you are what makes the world great.”
“I want to do more films.”
“Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!”
“I'm still learning about music. The best way to learn is to listen to the audience. When you listen to the audience, they will tell you what they like. I wish these big corporations, instead of telling the audience what they should have, would listen.”
“Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.”

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