"Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it."

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Source : Mercedes Lackey (2011). “Beauty and the Werewolf”, p.159, LUNA

Mercedes Lackey

#Hurt Quotes #Hands Quotes #Might Quotes

“I am a traditionalist, I'm not a conventional person, but I am a traditionalist in the true form of the word, in that your heart is opening, you're absolutely there for everyone, the face of pain has no tradition, by the way, and in my tradition, a guru simply means the removal of darkness.”
“The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.”

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“There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.”
“Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.”
“I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.”
“Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.”
“I'm the luckiest unlucky person.”
“I think I have the best of both worlds because I am a woman, but I'm also a tomboy.”

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