"She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time."

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Source : Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

Stephen Chbosky

#Sad Quotes #I Hate You Quotes #Hopeful Quotes

“I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.”
“Now look at the crowd. Weâ€™ve got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinosâ€”and guess what? President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America!”
“Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.”
“I can go into a playground of kids that don't know anything about Christianity, lead them to the Lord in a matter of, just no time at all, and just moments later they can be seeing visions and hearing the voice of God, because they're so open. They are so usable in Christianity.”

Source : "Jesus Camp". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2006.
“Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.”
“Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government - but the reverse... If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom...”
“Islam should be compared to other totalitarian ideologies like Communism or Fascism.”

Source : Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl
“She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it. Now, however, she knows she wasn't being foolish. She realizes that for no particular reason she stumbled into the core of what it is to be human. It's a rare gift to under stand that you life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.”

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