"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

#Love Quotes #Life Quotes #Inspiring Quotes

“Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development.”
“I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.”
“If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.”
“It is true that a great deal of the rhetoric of the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist fundamentalism (which, like all fundamentalisms, imagines that in fact it represents the side of reason and truth); but it is also true that the new atheism has sprung up in a garden of contending fundamentalisms.”
“We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.”
“What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?”

Source : Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.1437, e-artnow
“Surviving a tough situation means staying in the fight and maintaining a warrior's mindset.”
“I still have plenty of fight left in me.”

Source : "Actor Andrea Navedo – Overcoming a tough upbringing and staying healthy and balanced". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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