"If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it."

-- Elizabeth Strout

#New York Quotes #Sidewalk Quotes #Therapy Quotes

“I won't do anything that is connected with drugs. I've seen drugs ruin so many people's lives. I don't think there's anything cute about drugs. And I don't believe in celebrating them.”
“There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real 'you'. All the gods are little beings to you, all the ideas of God and Father in heaven are but your own reflection. God Himself is your image. 'God created man after His own image.' That is wrong. Man creates God after his own image. That is right. Throughout the universe we are creating gods after our own image. We create the god and fall down at his feet and worship him; and when this dream comes, we love it!”
“For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.”
“My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.”
“It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars.”

Source : "New Warning Labels: Ruining Smokers’ Days?" by Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. June 21, 2011.
“The image of where you are going has to be more dominant than the image of where you are.”
“When training young horses "There are many types of bits for many different disciplines, but the severity of ALL bits lies in the hands holding them."”
“There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.”

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