"We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them."

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Alain de Botton

#Beautiful Quotes #Should Quotes #Embarrassed Quotes

“One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.”

Source : William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”
“This place is like crazy on crackers.”
“AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.”
“Life's had to break you down so you could be rebuilt”
“I tried to be normal once... worst two minutes of my life.”
“The spring in Boston is like being in love: bad days slip in among the good ones, and the whole world is at a standstill, then the sun shines, the tears dry up, and we forget that yesterday was stormy.”

Source : Louise Closser Hale (1912). “Her Soul and Her Body”
“There are many people writing songs. That is absolutely wonderful. Who knows, there may be some kid in diapers and he or she might succeed in capturing in a few dozen words what great writers have spent years trying to say. Just the right word in the right place with the right melody behind it and the right rhythm. It might get around the world inch by inch, and people realize that this world is in danger, that we're in danger. That's the way "This Land Is Your Land" got to be so well known.”
“The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the left, you would think he was turning the clock back to the 1930s.”

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