"Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary."

-- Robert Musil

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“I am certainly vulnerable when I sit down with parents who have lost their children to gun violence. The emotion that they experience is so foreign to me that I find it very hard to say the right things.”
“My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies.”
“If you plan to read one book this year I encourage you to consider, Find Your Reason to Be Here.”
“I didn't die nor win.”
“Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing.”
“These two enormous forces â€” truth and meaning â€” are at war in today's world....And something sooner or later has to give.”
“Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."”

Source : Amy Vanderbilt, Letitia Baldrige (1978). “The Amy Vanderbilt complete book of etiquette: a guide to contemporary living”, Doubleday Books
“Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.”

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