"Since being a prisoner was a definite improvement over being dead, which was what she thought was going to happen when the Loundergs had attacked, Suzy was quite cheerful."

-- Garth Nix

#Cheerful Quotes #Improvement Quotes #Prisoner Quotes

“To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.”
“The Christian will be sure to make enemies. It will be one of his objects to make none; but if doing what is right and believing what is true should cause him to lose every earthly friend, he will regard it as a small loss, since his great Friend in heaven will be even more friendly and will reveal Himself to him more graciously than ever.”
“With some people ,the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.”
“I heard what you said. Iâ€™m not the silly romantic you think. I donâ€™t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I donâ€™t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I wantâ€¦a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.”

Source : Shana Abe (2006). “The Dream Thief”, p.183, Bantam
“Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight of himself; he feels, if he does not actually become, like a shadow without weight and substance.”

Source : Karen Horney (2013). “Our Inner Conflicts: A CONSTRUCTIVE THEORY OF NEUROSIS”, p.151, Routledge
“There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.”
“What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.”
“We can't behave like crocodiles and cry over spilled milk and broken eggs.”

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