"From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat."

-- Margaret Halsey

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“When itâ€™s too good, you do it over again. Too good is too easy. If itâ€™s too easy you have to worry. If youâ€™re not lying awake at night worrying about it, the reader isnâ€™t going to, either. I always know that when I get a good nightâ€™s sleep, the next day Iâ€™m not going to get any work done. Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. Itâ€™s not all inspirational.”
“Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.”
“If you are complaining about things in your life, you are on the complaining frequency, and you are not in a position to attract what you want. Get on to the frequency of good with your thoughts and words. Firstly you will feel good, and secondly you will be on the frequency of receiving more good.”

Source : Rhonda Byrne (2016). “How The Secret Changed My Life: Real People. Real Stories.”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
“The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms and habits and artifices by which less able and less active people are kept up to their labors.”

Source : Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1889). “The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton”
“Forgiveness is a process of giving up the old for something new. Old experiences and memories that we hold on to in anger, resentment, shame, or guilt cloud our spirit mind. The truth is, everything that has happened had to happen. It was a growth experience. There was something you needed to know or learn. If you stay angry, hurt, afraid, ashamed, or guilty, you miss the lesson. You will be stuck in a cloud of pain.”

Source : FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 15, 2015
“What you praise you increase.”
“Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.”
“I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.”

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