"When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad."

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Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.268, Random House Books for Young Readers

Jeanne DuPrau

#Peace Quotes #Mean Quotes #Want Quotes

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”
“Like madness is the glory of life.”
“I think people have some control over what they want; there's a relationship - maybe not automatic - between what you want and get.”

Source : "New Again: Sam Waterston". Interview with Martin Torgoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.
“My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.”
“The nurse pointed out that identical twins were already clones in a sense, and Mother Emmanuel suggested that the soul to worry about belonged to the person who would have himself cloned at great expense when so many unwanted children were going hungry.”
“Creating open teamwork is the best way to encourage innovation.”
“Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.”
“For every dream of yours that you make come true, you'll pay the price in heartbreak.”

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