"Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had."

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Source : Joan Walsh Anglund (1990). “Crocus in the Snow: A Book of Poems”, Random House Incorporated

Joan Walsh Anglund

#Healing Quotes #Adversity Quotes

“Eric walks toward me, and I back away by instinct. I try not to be afraid of him, but I know how smart he is and that if Iâ€™m not careful heâ€™ll notice that I keep staring at her, and that will be my undoing.”
“My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.”
“Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.”
“There's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.”
“To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.”
“The history of literature is the history of the human mind.”

Source : WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT (1858). “BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MISCELLANIES”, p.245
“I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.”

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“Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.”

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