"We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984."

-- Thurgood Marshall

#Mean Quotes #Winning Quotes #Grace Quotes

“For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive real life, still plagued him, even now in the desert, with his looks and health wasted. 'You never know what'll set the memory off,' he told us. 'A baby's face. A bell on a cat's collar. Anything.' They didn't exchange a single word. But in the weeks that followed, Trip spent his days wandering the halls, hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen.”
“The pursuit of strength is inherently difficult and entirely worthwhile.”
“Being happy in your skin that's what it's all about.”
“Intense pain often pushed me to make changes. The pain of the eating disorder pushed me into recovering from eating-disordered behaviors, and then the emotional turmoil I experienced without those behaviors (not knowing how to cope with perfectionism, feelings, and life in general) took me even further, so that I ultimately found serenity.”

Source : Jenni Schaefer (2009). “Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life”, p.5, McGraw Hill Professional
“Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.”

Source : Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.199, University of Missouri Press
“Romance is something people make fun of others for caring about, and yet itâ€™s something thatâ€™s very natural to care aboutâ€”itâ€™s a loving connection between people, like family and friendships: itâ€™s a significant emotional choice people make.”
“I was always thin. I guess I have good genes, so I never worried too much about my weight.”
“But I don't do the diet thing anymore. I'm a big believer in feeding your body what it needs. Deny yourself something and you're going to end up shoving your face full of it.”

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