"Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy."

-- Robert Burton

#Overcoming Quotes #Melancholy Quotes

“It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic but acceptance was the key to my sobriety... If I didn't have acceptance at that time in my life I would not be standing here today.”

Source : "Finishing speech a great relief to Eck / Closer brings tears during emotional gathering" by John Shea, www.sfgate.com. July 26, 2004.
“A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.”
“. . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have a moral or civic responsibility to this project of memory that ought to influence the way he or she engages in historical practice? Should moral concerns influence the historian's choice of subject matter, of issues to discuss, of evidence to use?”
“One of these days... One of these days... Pow! Right in the kisser!”

Source : "Fictional characters: Ralph Kramden". "The Honeymooners", TV Series (1955–1956)., www.imdb.com.
“Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.”
“I think that American salesmanship can be a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb.”
“Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!”
“I guess I'm odd-looking. I'm skinny. But I'm not only skinny - I'm oddly shaped.”

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