"Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?"

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Trenton Lee Stewart

#Rejected Quotes

“The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrow currently assail us aren't worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.”
“I am a nonbeliever myself. But I think there's so much about religion that is not factual in nature as to why people engage with it and what it means to them. You can debunk why you think there's no physical evidence for God and why the story of Jesus didn't really happen that way and stuff like that all the live-long day, and it's not going to make a difference to what role religion has in people's lives and how they feel about it and how it makes their lives better or worse.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.”

Source : Karen Wilkin, Georges Braque (1991). “Georges Braque”
“Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too.”
“Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am I to concern myself with an allotment of days I never had and was never promised? Must I check off each day of my life as if I am subtracting from this imaginary hoard? No, on the contrary, I will add each day of my life to my treasure of days lived. And with each day, my treasure will grow, not diminish.”
“Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking.”

Source : Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.106, Lulu.com
“I had sold my soul for pleasure.”
“I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.”

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