"The worst experience can bring out a person's deepest strength."

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Source : Susan Campbell Bartoletti (2017). “The Boy Who Dared”, p.134, Scholastic Inc.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

#Worst Quotes #Persons Quotes

“Humility is no substitute for a good personality.”
“I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.”
“A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!”
“Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.”

Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr
“If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly Because it dissolves in water.”
“My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks.”
“The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'”
“Bittersweet is kind of my own favourite style because I want to be able to cry to the same song that I also can laugh to.”

Source : "Interview: Icona Pop's Aino Jawo on Their New Album, 'This Is... Icona Pop'". "Coup De Main" Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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