"The thing about happiness is that it doesn't help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me."

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Source : Lana Turner (1982). “Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth”, Dutton Adult

Lana Turner

#Grateful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Rose Quotes

“A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.”
“Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.”
“The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.”
“Mahlia... understood Doctor Mahfouz and his blind rush into the village. He wasn't trying to change them. He wasn't trying to save anyone. He was just trying to not be part of the sickness. Mahlia had thought he was stupid for walking straight into death, but now, as she lay against the pillar, she saw it differently. She thought she'd been surviving. She thought that she'd been fighting for herself. But all she'd done was create more killing, and in the end it had all led to this moment, where they bargained with a demon ... not for their lives, but for their souls”
“I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.”
“Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.”

Source : "After 10 years, Nancy Grace to leave Court TV". www.today.com. May 9, 2007.
“Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.”

Source : Kate Morton (2013). “The Secret Keeper: A Novel”, p.161, Simon and Schuster
“I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.”

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