"Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day."

-- Arthur Golden

#Good Day Quotes #Bad Day Quotes #Essence Quotes

“I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.”
“It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.”
“I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.”
“The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which, in times of distress, is probably more frequent than is ever acknowledged to Europeans.”

Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.63, Penguin UK
“What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?”
“Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.”

Source : Griffith Edwards (2013). “Alcohol: The World's Favorite Drug”, p.1, Macmillan
“Very unconscious people experience their own ego through its reflection in others.Â When you realize that what you react to in others is also in you (and sometimes only in you), you begin to become aware of your own ego.”
“Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.”

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