"Avowed work, even when uncongenial, is far less trying to patience than feigned pleasure."

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Source : Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1886). “Human Intercourse”

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#Work Quotes #Trying Quotes #Pleasure Quotes

“It's funny because I'm a sucker for glitz and glitter when it comes to clothes and nail polish, but with my makeup, I'm more comfortable with a natural look. It feels more like me.”
“I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.”
“Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?”

Source : Judith Guest (1980). “Ordinary people”
“Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement.”
“My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled”
“Be who you want to be and not care about what others think." -Andy Sixx Rock n roll isn't meant to be taken so seriously, I think sometimes people forget it's meant to be fun. A rock show is meant to be a time for people to have fun and let go of the drudgeries of life....”

Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. March 1, 2010.
“I may be Irish, but I'm not stupid.”
“I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. No one can be much frightened, certainly, during a period of great and immanent peril -- the mind is too much concentrated on the thing itself, and on the actions necessary to meet or avoid it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.”

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