"We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it."

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Robert Wilson Lynd

#Effort Quotes #Strive Quotes

“Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.”

Source : Louisa May Alcott (2015). “LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…”, p.2823, e-artnow
“What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.”
“Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.”
“Too often we pray to have patience, but we want it right now!”
“Bathed in sweat and trembling with agitation, no, not with agitation, but with fear, for he finally admitted it to himself: it was naked fear that had seized him, and in admitting it he grew calmer and his thoughts clearer.”
“In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book”
“Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.”

Source : Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers
“marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!”

Source : Eric Jerome Dickey (2008). “Pleasure”, p.212, Penguin

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