"Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes."

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Source : Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

Alice James

#Attitude Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Luxury Quotes

“In so many things, growth comes from adversity.”
“Some of the most devastating things that happen to you will teach you the most”
“Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.”
“I am persuaded that I shall obtain the highest amount of present happiness, I shall do most for Godâ€™s glory and the good of man, and I shall have the fullest reward in eternity, but maintaining a conscience always washed in Christâ€™s blood, by being filled with the Holy Spirit at all times, and by attaining the most entire likeness to Christ in mind, will, and heart, that it is possible for a redeemed sinner to attain to in this world.”
“Task switching exacts a cost few realize they are even paying.”
“Jung even asserted that he would have no objection to regarding the psyche as a quality of matter and matter as a concrete aspect of the psyche, provided that the psyche was understood to be the collective unconscious.”
“There is nothing more energizing than inhaling the tang of wilderness, loamy after rain, pungent with the richness of earth shuddering with life, or taking in the brisk dry cleanness of winter.”

Source : Anthony Lawrence, Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence (2009). “The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants”, p.14, Pan Macmillan
“Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy”

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