"I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it"

-- Margery Allingham

#Blessed Quotes #People Quotes #Needs Quotes

“When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.”
“People may call what happens at midlife 'a crisis,' but it's not. It's an unraveling - a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're 'supposed' to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are.”

Source : Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“Focus on action! Go on! Do it! Call them! Write it! Say it! Grab it! Who knows what 'awesome stuff' might happen? Yes - Action is the key!”
“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
“I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.”

Source : "TIME", Vol. 52, 1948.
“I mean I constantly had security guards around me when I was younger and I wasn't allowed to go to the mall with a lot of my friends and stuff like that. And so, when I finally was able to sneak out, I would just really, really take it to the next level.”
“To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.”
“To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.”

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