"The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former"

-- Alfred Armand Montapert

#Inspiration Quotes #Majority Quotes #Records Quotes

“She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place you needed filled to make it through another day. Rachel remembered how growing up she’d thought living on a farm with just a father was as lonely as you could be. (130)”
“Every acceptance of suffering is an acceptance of that which exists. The denial of every form of suffering can result in a flight from reality in which contact with reality becomes ever thinner, ever more fragmentary. It is impossible to remove oneself totally from suffering, unless one removes oneself from life itself, no longer enters into relationships, makes oneself invulnerable.”

Source : Dorothee Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press
“Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.”
“Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails.”
“After every ''victory'' you have more enemies.”
“You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.”

Source : "Paul Keating Launches Book on Whitlam Dismissal". "The World Today", www.abc.net.au. November 09, 2005.
“Marijuana allows one to take a breath and see the realities of a situation without the news beating their interpretation into our brains. Pot relaxes you.”
“In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.”

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