"Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it."

-- Mignon McLaughlin

#Psychology Quotes #Neurosis Quotes #Cold Quotes

“The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us.”

Source : "Ashes and Snow: A Novel in Letters". Book by Gregory Colbert, 2005.
“It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.”
“I never did any training in journalism or in finance, so I really was in the deep end. I got very good at going to press conferences and nodding. I'd figure it out when I got back to the office. Charts and numbers. I've never been great with facts, ever, my whole life. For a journalist, that's not a very good trait.”
“Itâ€™s really critical to have your dream life in your mind so that youâ€™re constantly adjusting and designing your business in such a way to accomplish it, because you could very easily be highly successful and not accomplish the lifestyle you really want to accomplish in your heart.”
“You have to watch the clock constantly because youre only allowed out of your home for a limited period, and for a busy person, watching the clock and knowing other people are watching the clock is extremely difficult.”
“I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many, and not just young people, are unemployed, many times due to a purely economic conception of society, which seeks selfish profit, beyond the parameters of social justice.”
“If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.”
“What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it”

Source : Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.159, Penguin

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