"Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore."

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Source : Ruth Gordon (1980). “Ruth Gordon, an open book”, Doubleday Books

Ruth Gordon

#Want Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #What You Want Quotes

“Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.”
“Like that's the only reason anyone would ever buy a first-aid kit? Don't take this the wrong way, Professor McGonagall, but what sort of crazy children are you used to dealing with?" "Gryffindors," spat Professor McGonagall, the word carrying a freight of bitterness and despair that fell like an eternal curse on all youthful heroism and high spirits.”
“Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.”
“The funniest people are the saddest once”
“Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.”

Source : Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.
“Gratitude is the most passionate transformative force in the cosmos. When we offer thanks to God or to another human being, gratitude gifts us with renewal, reflection, reconnection.”

Source : Sarah Ban Breathnach (2009). “The Simple Abundance Companion: Following Your Authentic Path to Something More”, p.25, Hachette UK
“We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime”
“Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?”

Source : Aidan Chambers (1999). “Postcards from No Man's Land: A Novel”, Random House (UK)

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