"I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have them in circumstances where a duty makes it imperative; and in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose."

-- Simone Weil

#Happiness Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.”
“A second can feel like forever if what follows is heartbreak.”

Source : Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.221, Penguin
“Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.”

Source : "Column: Is it really the 'World Baseball Classic' if US fans don't pay attention?" by Jim Litke, www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2013.
“Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.”
“Now, the velocity of wave propagation can be seen, without the aid of any mathematical analysis, to depend on the elasticity of the medium and its density; for we can see that if a medium is highly elastic the disturbance would be propagated at a great speed.”

Source : "Light Waves and Their Uses". Book by Albert A. Michelson. Published by The University of Chicago Press, pp. 23-25, 1903.
“To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.”
“Beloved, it is not our long prayers but our believing God that gets the answer.”
“I glance into the faces of all these people out for a Sunday stroll, but I'm not seeing eyes and noses and mouths. I'm seeing stories. Every person has a story. All the hopes and dreams. And fears. And secrets. In every face.”

Source : Andrew Clements (2008). “Things Hoped For”, p.93, Penguin

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