"In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it."

-- Joseph Addison

#Real Quotes #Grief Quotes #Loss Quotes

“A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.”
“Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.”

Source : Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.305, Simon and Schuster
“Whatever you wear, you have to own it. Make it yours.”

Source : "How a Hollywood Man Should Dress for The Oscars" by Paul Feig, www.esquire.com. February 24, 2012.
“People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.”
“I could do without the Bubonic Plague.”

Source : Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.
“Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.”

Source : "Renee Zellweger: Just the job". Interview With Zoe Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2003.
“If we knew how to listen to God, we should hear him speaking to us, for God does speak. He speaks in his Gospel; he speaks also through life - that new Gospel to which we ourselves add a page each day.”

Source : "Prayers".
“'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children.”

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