"Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment."

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Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.66, Penguin

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

#Contentment Quotes #Letters Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Eliminating one weakness is better than adding one strength.”
“What’s so bad about addiction? I can’t remember. Isn’t it something about giving up your freedom? Isn’t freedom an illusion?”
“I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.”
“Sometimes, girls focus too much on relationships - like, "I need a boyfriend!" But you should really just focus on yourself. But it will all come together when you least expect it.”

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“You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away.”
“The co-opting of the environmental movement by the petroleum industry had a shattering effect. It crushed nascent biofuel businesses, killed research, cut off critical funding, stopped the building of new infrastructure, dissolved powerful alliances and seeded America with doubt over our ability to free ourselves from petroleum.”
“Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine.”
“Use your own intuition. You are tomorrow.”

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