"It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness."

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Source : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.217

Sarah Josepha Hale

#Hope Quotes #Heart Quotes #Secret Quotes

“Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.”
“But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.”

Source : Lian Hearn (2008). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori”, p.34, Pan Macmillan
“Your body is not made to throw like we throw. That's why you see softball pitchers pitching two or three games a day. It's a natural movement in softball. In baseball it's not a natural movement.”
“Well, if you can't then write in the press or put on television the importance of parents changing what they're doing, then the safe way out is to say, "Look, learning disabilities is probably genes. ADHD, probably genes." And that is the political alternative to not blaming the victim.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself”
“Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.”
“I put more lawmen in the ground than Alabama put cottonseed,”
“Well the seaport, all seaports in Britain whether it's Glasgow or Newcastle or... or Liverpool, any of the seaports, I've got this kind of knock about, beggar and the Lord will provide feeling about it.”

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