"Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them...go around them...take evasive action."

-- Geraldine McCaughrean

#People Quotes #Despair Quotes #Unhappy Quotes

“I don't consider myself a heartthrob in any way. I'm just pinching myself. I'm truly fortunate to be a part of this whole process.”
“You have something to say. Something of your very own. Try to say it. Don't be ashamed of any real thought or feeling you have. Don't undervalue it. Don't let the fear of others prevent you from saying it... You have something to say, something that no one else in the world has said in just your way of saying it.”
“A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.”

Source : William Lyon Phelps (1912). “Teaching in School and College”
“Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.”
“Money and electricity are much alike. Both are stored energy. Living amidst electricity, using it constantly, you take its presence and its utility for granted. Treated with respect, it is constructive, tireless. Treated with disrespect, it is destructive, vicious. It will light your way, pull a twelve-car train from Washington to New York in a bit more than four hours, kill you or burn your house alike. Electricity is insulated, though, and children are not permitted to play with it.”

Source : Evalyn Walsh McLean (2015). “Father Struck It Rich”, p.454, Pickle Partners Publishing
“If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.”
“True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.”
“Do not make a stingy sandwich; pile the cold cuts high; so you should see salami coming through the rye.”

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