"That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have."

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Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.160, Modern Library

Helen Hunt Jackson

#Expression Quotes #People Quotes #Peculiar Quotes

“Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.”
“In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place.”
“We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.”
“Nina Dobrev makes my job easy, its hard not to melt when she looks at you with those doe eyes.”
“It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.”
“Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.”
“Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”

Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
“The practice of leaving settled society to undertake a spiritual journey, or a spiritual life really, is something that is much more common in India. Common especially to a certain phase of life, to the end of life. But not so unusual for younger people as well.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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