"Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people."

-- Bryant H. McGill

#Beautiful Quotes #Hurt Quotes #Mean Quotes

“What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise their â€œalienationâ€ as a precious gift of freedom from arbitrary norms that they did not make and did not sanction. At the moment a person questions the validity of the rules, the victim is no longer a victim.”
“What if you lived your entire life completely without urgency? You went to classes, you ate your meals, on Saturday nights a boy you didn't love took you to the movies; now and then you actually had a conversation with someone. The rest of the time -the hours that weren't accounted for-you spent waiting for something to happen to you; when you were particularly desperate, you went out looking for it.”

Source : Joyce Johnson (2014). “Come and Join the Dance: A Novel”, p.11, Open Road Media
“A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in.”

Source : Of the Nativity sermon 15 (1622) See T. S. Eliot 68
“I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.”
“Ask yourself what problem you have right now. Not next year, tomorrow or five minutes from now. You can always cope with the now, but you can never cope with the future. Nor do you have to. The answer, the strength and the right action will be there when you need it. Not before or after.”
“With practice and focus, you can extend yourself far more than you ever believed possible.”
“Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.”
“Miami, in many ways, is a quintessentially American city. The juxtaposition of showy wealth with dire pennilessness, the tussle of glitz and decay doesnt come any more marked than here.”

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