"we have higher quality conversations in restaurants than at home. It's as though we rise to the occasion by selecting worthwhile, less mundane subjects to discuss when eating out, just as we dress more carefully ..."

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Source : Mimi Sheraton (2004). “Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life”, Large Print Press

Mimi Sheraton

#Home Quotes #Quality Quotes #Dresses Quotes

“You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness.”
“I don't think people talk about mental illness a lot, but they need to know it's OK to talk about how they are feeling. People are afraid of telling the truth because they think it's going to hurt everyone around them. I've kept so much inside that I've literally lost it. I wish more people would get help when they feel like they need it-- not just to look to medicine, but to the support of others.”
“My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started telling herself a new story. Her dad had done the best he could. He wasn't capable of giving more. It had nothing to do with her. She could no longer take it personally.”
“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
“There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.”
“Each day you're presented with a choice. You can either keep your greatness hidden under a pile of fears, regrets, and excuses, or you can let it out. So the best way to begin unlocking inner greatness is to make a conscious choice to live out the rest of today, with the best you.”
“The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.”

Source : "Would you have booed George Osborne at the Paralympics?" by Alastair Campbell and Danny Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.
“In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.”

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