"I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles."

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Source : Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.230, Scholastic UK

Laurie Halse Anderson

#Self Esteem Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Pounds Quotes

“A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes.”

Source : Melissa Fay Greene (2015). “Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction”, p.22, Da Capo Press
“Quite often I'll turn on the television and something like Sound of Music will be on or Victor/Victoria and I might watch a moment or two. But I don't actually sit down and say I'm going to watch one of my movies.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new forms, but there's a kind of cumulative quality...”
“Television's not going read stories to you.”
“But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way”
“I manage to hide in my movies.”
“We never begin worship. We aim it.”

Source : Matt Papa (2014). “Look and Live: Behold the Soul-Thrilling, Sin-Destroying Glory of Christ”, p.22, Baker Books
“And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.”

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