"Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?"

-- Mary Balogh

#Beautiful Quotes #People Quotes #Shells Quotes

“Prayer is thinking and thanking. It is thinking of our many blessings and accepting them with a thankful spirit.”
“To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.”

Source : June Jordan (2012). “Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan”, p.11, Copper Canyon Press
“After I played him for the first time, I said 'Let's see. He's four or five inches taller. He's 40 or 50 pounds heavier. His vertical leap is at least as good as mine. He can get up and down the floor as well as I can. And he's smart. The real problem with all this is I have to show up.”
“A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.”
“Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.”

Source : Babe Ruth, Bob Considine (1948). “The Babe Ruth story as told to Bob Considine: with 49 photos”
“So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.”
“There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.”
“It hurts me when seeing a girl cry...I want to comfort them as long as I can...or I'll end up crying too..”

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