"Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked."

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Source : William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1909). “The Map of Life”

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#Anxiety Quotes #Scylla Quotes #Bark Quotes

“In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.”
“I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields.”
“God, she was beautiful - my first image of the Orient - a woman such as only the desert poet knew how to praise: her face was the sun, her hair the protecting shadow, her eyes fountains of cool water, her body the most slender of palm-trees and her smile a mirage.”

Source : Amin Maalouf (1998). “Samarkand”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated
“I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.”
“This is what I think. You canâ€™t have everything at once. Like the pockets in your clothes, thereâ€™s a limit to how much we can have at once. There are times when to put something in your pocket, you have to throw something else away. You have to prioritize those decisions by yourself. There are things that you canâ€™t get back once youâ€™ve thrown them away.”
“The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.”
“I want to make sure that everyone knows, God has been my greatest quarterback and I've caught a lot more than 84 touchdowns with Him!”
“You can never plan the future by the past.”

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