"I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists."

-- Philip Roth

#World Quotes #Novelists Quotes #Easier Quotes

“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”

Source : "This Man Faced Unimaginable Suffering, And Then Wrote The Definitive Book About Happiness" by Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2014.
“I don't know where I would be without my critics & haters. I thank yall genuinely from the bottom of my heart for fueling my motivation.”
“Do not become self-sufficient . Self-sufficienc y is Satanâ€™s net where he catches men, like poor silly fish, and destroys them. Be not self-sufficient . The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself. God pours no power into manâ€™s heart till manâ€™s power is all poured out. Live, then, daily, a life of dependence on the grace of God.”
“There is no mystique to Tai Chi Chuan. What is difficult is the perseverance. It took me ten years to discover my chi, but thirty years to learn how to use it. Once you see the benefit, you won't want to stop.”
“Perfection... is clearly not achieved simply by being naked, by the lack of wealth or by the rejection of honors, unless there is also that love whose ingredients the apostle described (cf. I Cor. 13) and which is to be found solely in purity of heart. Not to be jealous, not to be puffed up, not to act heedlessly, not to seek what does not belong to one, not to rejoice over some injustice, not to plan evil - what is this and its like if not the continuous offering to God of the heart that is perfect and truly pure, a heart kept free of all disturbance?”
“My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.”
“If there had been an exercise I'd liked, would I have gotten this big in the first place?”
“rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.”

Source : Elizabeth Hawes (1948). “Anything But Love: A Complete Digest of the Rules of Feminine Behavior from Birth to Death ...”

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