"Iâ€™d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary."

-- Michelle Magorian

#Ordinary Quotes #Miserable Quotes #Odd Quotes

“There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.”
“... many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.”

Source : Clifford Whittingham Beers (2015). “A Mind That Found Itself”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing
“A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like â€œwhy does a good God let bad things happen to good people â€ such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say â€œGod â€ we will do so with the prayer â€œMy God my God why have you forsaken me?”

Source : Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.141, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Belief in one god, praying, charity, the five pillars, ethical moral objectives and messages in the Koran, the history of Islam. There are basic tenants in Islam that we universally believe in but I think it's very naive to think that Sharia, that legal rulings are derived in a vacuum, that people do not bring their own histories and politics and social pledges to bear when they interpret the Koran.”
“I try to be a good daughter, as I believe in karma and feel that how you are with your parents is directly proportionate to what you receive in your life. I am a big oneness follower, and our gurus have told us that if you want to achieve external happiness, you need to be happy internally. And your inner circle is your family.”
“Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.”

Source : Jerry Gorovoy, Louise Bourgeois, Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi, Paulo Herkenhoff, Fondazione Prada (Milan, Italy) (1997). “Louise Bourgeois: blue days and pink days”
“Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, De Raptu Proserpinæ, III. 290, 1922.
“... Hey, I didn't know you didn't like baloney." I went cold. "I don't like it. I never liked it." Soda just looked at me. "You used to eat it. That's why you wouldn't eat anything while you were sick. You kept saying you didn't like baloney, no matter what it was we were trying to get you to eat." "I don't like it," I repeated.”

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