"What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery."

-- Louise Erdrich

#Adventure Quotes #Men Quotes #Endurance Quotes

“Recent research shows that many children who do not have enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn. Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernutrition - the kind most common among poor people in America - can do it.”
“What I saw was just one eye In the dawn as I was going: A bird can carry all the sky In that little button glowing. Never in my life I went So deep into the firmament.”

Source : Harold Monro, “The Bird At Dawn”
“The world of imagination is the world of eternity.”
“Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.”
“The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character.”
“He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that--it didn't work.”

Source : Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
“I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was there.”

Source : Markus Zusak (2008). “The Book Thief”, p.537, Random House
“Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!”

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