"Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before."

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Source : Mary Mapes Dodge (2012). “Hans Brinker”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

Mary Mapes Dodge

#Luxury Quotes #Hardship Quotes

“Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.”
“I got into architecture because I was searching for a way to produce in the world. I went to art school and thought I would do it through art, but I realized very quickly that I was interested in the social ramifications of form making. So buildings became the vehicle and fulfilled that thing. That satisfied me when I produced them. I decided this is what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“There is no such thing as a 'superior' or 'inferior' culture, there are only various cultural patterns which make up this beautiful, multicolored mosaic.”
“Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.”
“I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.”
“I want TNA to grow as a company, itâ€™s better for me as a performer and me as a businessman. But how can they grow if every chance they get they are constantly talking about up north and the WWE?”
“There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.”

Source : John Quincy Adams (1969). “The diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845: American diplomacy, and political, social, and intellectual life, from Washington to Polk”
“Thinking that everything must be bigger to matter is a problem. Small power emanates and disseminates in a very different way.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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