"The mind can be our best friend and advocate in getting what we want in life, or it can pull the brakes on and be a nasty little foe â€“ the choice is yours â€“ choose your attitude."

-- Rachael Bermingham

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“But one, the lofty follower of the Sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves Drooping all night; and, when he warm returns, Points her enamoured bosom to his ray.”
“Making work for me is being in the world, but it's also being specific about being in the world. I'm interested in this increasingly rare space of contemplation and taking the time and energy to be thoughtful.”
“A girl who is interested in becoming a model must first accept the fact that she is the product. She must be ready to deal with a lot of rejection.”
“A stylist might say you look amazing in anything. Your family will always tell you if you look a complete idiot.”
“He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.”
“I was living in Germany in the thirties, and I knew that Hitler had made it his mission to exterminate all Jews, especially the children and the women who could bear children in the future. I was unable to save my people, only their memory.”
“Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.”

Source : Elizabeth McCracken (2008). “An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir”, p.38, Hachette UK
“The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.”

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