"He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that--it didn't work."

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Source : Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

Gary Paulsen

#Sorry Quotes #Dark Quotes #Long Quotes

“Life is not just something to be endured. It is to be lived in joy, in a fullness without limit (p.82)”
“I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.”
“I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes”
“Beware how you take away hope from another human being.”

Source : Valedictory address to medical graduates at Harvard University on March 10, 1858. The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume LVIII, No. 8, p. 158, March 25, 1858.
“And you know, talk about something else is falling from the sky. And that is an asteroid. What's coming our way? Is this an effect of perhaps global warming or just some meteoric occasion?”

Source : "CNN Newsroom" with Deborah Feyerick, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2013.
“To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.”
“I think I was about 30 before I realized that not every family talks about the presentment clause on a regular basis.”
“When banks extend loans to their customers, they create money by crediting their customers’ accounts.”

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