"There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome."

-- Jacqueline Carey

#Awkward Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.”
“It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.”

Source : Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.121, University of Chicago Press
“I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.”
“The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.”
“Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.”

Source : George Du Maurier (2012). “Peter Ibbetson”, p.337, tredition
“As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.”
“Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.”
“In the never-ending battle between order and chaos, clutter sides with chaos every time. Anything that you possess that does not add to your life or your happiness eventually becomes a burden.”

Source : John Robbins (2010). “The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less”, p.220, Ballantine Books

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