"Life is too short for mean anxieties."

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Charles Kingsley

#Life Is Too Short Quotes #Mean Quotes #Worry Quotes

“They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)”
“Youâ€™re crowding me. I needâ€” room.â€... What I needed were boundaries. I needed willpower. I needed to be caged up, since yet again I was proving I couldnâ€™t be trusted in Patchâ€™s presence. I should have been bolting for the door, and yet â€¦ I wasnâ€™t.”
“There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.”

Source : Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.17, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.”
“I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.”
“There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives”

Source : Paul Farmer (2001). “Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues”, p.84, Univ of California Press
“What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him”
“We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.”

Source : James Hilton (1988). “Lost Horizon”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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