"I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted."

-- Brad Meltzer

#Pain Quotes #Betrayal Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.”
“Shed the past, forget the future, and fall into the moment feet first.”
“Having music in the schools, having art in the schools, having art in your life, should not be heroic. It should be every day. Having things we've paid for years ago and that we depend on kept up - our schools, our political institutions - should not be a heroic act. It should be part of our daily citizenship. The idea that we had to do this incredibly exhausting, two-year-long, very expensive, labor intensive, community-based action, is, one the one hand unbelievably great, and, on the other hand, really depressing.”
“As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.”
“If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.”
“A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.”
“An absolute and unlimited right over any object of property would be the right to commit nearly every crime.If Ihad sucha right over thestick Iamaboutto cut, I might employ it as a mace to knock down the passengers, or I might convert it into a sceptre as an emblem of royalty, or into an idol to offend the national religion.”
“Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.”

Source : "George Edward Jelf: A Memoir". Book by Katherine Frances Jelf, p. 10, 1909.

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