"Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness."

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Source : Shirley Hazzard (2000). “Greene on Capri: A Memoir”, p.12, Macmillan

Shirley Hazzard

#Needs Quotes #Unhappiness Quotes #Humans Quotes

“When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.”
“When people have nothing left to lose, and they've lost everything, they lose it.”

Source : "Glenn Beck's War Room". "The Glenn Beck Show", www.foxnews.com. February 23, 2009.
“I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.”
“Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.”
“Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?”
“This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons.”
“In football, you can never say anything is certain. The benchmark is 38-40 points. That has always been the case. That will never change.”
“If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?”

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