"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will...."

-- Barbara

#Courage Quotes #Pain Quotes #Broken Quotes

“I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.”

Source : Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”
“I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by.”
“I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves.”
“I love stepping onto the ice knowing I can create whatever I want or am feeling that day. It inspires me to be creative and artistic. It's a great therapeutic outlet to utilize both my heart and body at the same time.”

Source : "Tara Lipinski: On Dealing with Stress, Using Failure to Fuel Success, and How she Keeps her Head Clear". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“I'd like to hope you end up a miserable, lonely woman. But actually, I hope you have children one day, Ellie Haworth. Then you'll know how it feels to be vulnerable. And to have to fight, to be constantly vigilant, just to make sure your children get to grow up with a father.”
“Cynicism is no more mature than naÃ¯vetÃ©. You're no more mature, just more burned.”
“Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.”
“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”

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