"Solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental pain and distress."

-- Samuel D. Warren

#Pain Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.”

Source : Elizabeth George Speare (2011). “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I've always said, 'I am a selector, I am not defector' - the first few phrases in English I learned. I said I hate 'defector'; something defective about the people. It's a bad word.”
“I feel like the human body is what it is, and the more you make yourself comfortable with it, the better off you are. Love your body and embrace that.”
“I've got little ankles and a bit of a belly, so it makes me look rather an egg on legs.”
“Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.”
“Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.”
“All my life I've been pleasin' everyone but me, waking up in someone else's dream.”
“If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive”

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