"There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt."

-- Jim Butcher

#Hurt Quotes #Mean Quotes #Scary Quotes

“In every single moment, we have the choice to be happy or not. No matter what is going on, we can choose to focus on what is right, what is good and whole in ourselves and our lives, and what options we have in any given situation. In other words, we can choose to be happy no matter what.”

Source : M.J. Ryan (2010). “365 Health and Happiness Boosters”, p.191, Conari Press
“Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration.”
“Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer's task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.”

Source : Emil Ruder (2001). “Typographie”, Arthur Niggli
“The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.”
“People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.”
“Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts.”

Source : Theodor Herzl (2015). “A Jewish State: Proposal of a modern solution for the Jewish question”, p.62, BoD – Books on Demand
“Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.”
“True love knows no constraints, no locks or bars. Past every obstacle it makes its way. It spreads it wings to soar toward the stars, No earthly power will make it stop or stay.”

Source : Kerstin Gier (2012). “Sapphire Blue”, p.33, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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