"Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night - when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep - that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice."

-- Paulo Coelho

#Courage Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Husband Quotes

“But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.”
“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”
“The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.”

Source : Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.176, Random House
“If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy.”
“There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.”
“The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?”

Source : Wallace Stevens, Jos e Rodr iguez Feo, Beverly Coyle, Alan Filreis (1986). “Secretaries of the Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens & José Rodríguez Feo”, p.14, Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press
“In such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the spirit of the hour which is usually about 4 a.m. His suave young men, always commuting between Princeton and The Plaza in Stutz Bearcats never sat still for long. It was too uncomfortable, with a large flask in the hip pocket.”
“The average Tea Partier is sincerely against government spending - with the exception of the money spent on them.”

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