"To put yourself in anothers place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily."

-- Juliette Gordon Low

#Girl Quotes #Real Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“In a funny way I think social media is making people less rather more experimental. People are too worried about looking good all the time. When I grew up you could get it all horribly wrong and it didn't matter, there was no record.”
“A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.”
“I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family.”
“If God didn't want us to eat cows, why are they made out of meat?”
“All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table.”
“To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.”
“I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”
“The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of lossâ€”you have gone and lost something else. But the body moves toward health. The mind, too, in steps. One step at a time. Ask a mother who has just lost a child, How many children do you have? "Four," she will say, "â€”three," and years later, "Three," she will say, "â€”four.”

Source : Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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