"I work 338 days a year, 16 hours a day,"

-- Dave Pelzer

#Years Quotes #Hours Quotes

“We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.”
“The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.”
“The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.”
“Don't nurse your dreams, Rosy. You can't help having them, but don't nurse them. If you nurse your dreams, they tend to come true.”
“When you give in to aversion and anger, itâ€™s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.”
“When you're right there in the crisi, you'll do anything to make yourself feel better, distract yourself from the misery, deny reality, not matter how stupid.”
“Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.”
“Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it.”

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