"Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good."

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Source : Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

Lucy Larcom

#Adversity Quotes #Sunshine Quotes #Doe Quotes

“The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes.”
“So much for the fruits of love. Love? What's love? Sex, ah, that's another thing. Love has babies: sex has abortions.”

Source : Fay Weldon (2015). “Mischief: Fay Weldon Selects Her Best Short Stories”, p.14, Head of Zeus
“There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.”
“I perceive we postpone all our joys of Christ, till He and we be in our own house above, thinking that there is nothing of it here to be sought or found, but only hope and fair promises; and that Christ will give us nothing here but tears, sadness, crosses; and that we shall never feel the smell of the flowers of that high garden of paradise above, till we come there. Nay, but I find it possible to find young glory, and a young green paradise of joy even here. We dream of hunger in Christ's house, while we are here, although He alloweth feasts to all the bairns within God's household.”
“I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mom and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me.”

Source : "Angela Ahrendts: The Burberry CEO who reinvented a heritage brand for the digital age" by Sheena McKenzie, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2013.
“Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.”

Source : Mireille Guiliano (2009). “Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility”, p.247, Simon and Schuster
“I just have to prove to myself, I don't have to prove to fans.”
“Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.”

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