"We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside."

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Source : Anchee Min (2006). “Empress Orchid”, p.224, Bloomsbury Publishing

Anchee Min

#Frustration Quotes #Order Quotes #Mind Quotes

“You stand still, somebody might get close to you. I don't stand still much anymore.”
“Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy - in other words, what's happening now.”
“We learned that what happens when we are alone with the Lord determines how intimate and deep the worship will be when we come together.”
“A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.”
“You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.”

Source : "8 More Priceless Bits of Wisdom from Lost Interviews with 20th Century Icons" by Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. December 5, 2014.
“If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.”
“Because simplicity isn't the greatest thing in the world, but love.”
“I want to keep sleeping, but the sun outside my window has other ideas: First blind her. Then jab her eyeballs with scorching-hot daggers.”

Source : Natasha Friend (2010). “Lush”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.

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