"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Hope Quotes #Misery Quotes #Born Quotes

“Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.”
“Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.”
“Having emotional independence means we are no longer tied to the need for constant approval and are, therefore, not coerced into doing more than we feel comfortable doing by our need to please others.”

Source : Sue Patton Thoele (2016). “The Courage to Be Yourself: A Woman's Guide to Emotional Strength and Self-Esteem”, p.32, Conari Press
“I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.”
“Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money.”

Source : Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.292, Pan Macmillan
“We could be happy if the air was as pure as beer.”
“THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?”
“By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.”

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