"Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes."

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Source : MERIDEL LE SUEUR (1945). “NORHT STAR COUNTRY”

Meridel Le Sueur

#Hero Quotes #People Quotes #History Quotes

“Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.”

Source : Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.204, Open Road Media
“I marvel now that it was not obvious how inextricable suffering and fear are. It was not until fear left that I noticed, slowly, how it seemed to have taken suffering with it. It took a while to figure out that (for me, anyhow) suffering is mostly caused by fear-not by the circumstances themselves, but by my response to them.”

Source : Jan Frazier, Barbi Schulick (2007). “When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening”, p.103, Weiser Books
“The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess.”
“When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.”
“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
“My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.”
“Work is the vessel into which we pour so much of ourselves hope and disappointment, elation and rage, satisfaction and frustration. Yet any damp display of these emotions is seen as weakness.”

Source : Lisa Belkin (2003). “Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom”, p.105, Simon and Schuster
“The happy life is to an extraordinary extent the same as the good life.”

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