"I wanted the world to sit back, listen up, and let me explain to it that when someone is sad and hopeless, the last thing they need to feel is that they are the only ones in the world with that feeling. So, if you feel sorry for someone, don't pretend to be happy. Don't pretend to care only about their problems."

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Source : John Corey Whaley (2011). “Where Things Come Back”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

John Corey Whaley

#Sorry Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Care Quotes

“Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.”
“Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.”

Source : Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.50, Oxford University Press
“In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means you get to get better. That's the great thing about the theater.”
“Itâ€™s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place.”
“The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?”
“A lot of times I feel I probably would have ended up in a mental hospital if it weren't for the structure that 'Bones' gave me.”

Source : "Eric Millegan on Living (and Acting) with Bipolar Disorder: Part 1" by Jamie Frevele, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?”
“Nearly two and a half million people die every year that are on the voter rolls. So it takes time to get dead people off the voter rolls.”

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