"For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn't for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite."

-- Geraldine Brooks

#People Quotes #Four Quotes #Months Quotes

“I just lost my lunch and I didnâ€™t even have any!”
“When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.”
“From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.”
“And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints.”

Source : Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.189, Random House
“Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.”

Source : Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.264, Penguin
“Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.”

Source : Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]”, p.344, Aeterna Press
“I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would.”
“Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.”

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