"But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?"

-- Lois McMaster Bujold

#Pain Quotes #Winning Quotes #Disability Quotes

“The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.”

Source : Eric Sevareid (1964). “This is Eric Sevareid”
“I have often spoken of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity â€“ and personal integrity, at that â€“ is being honest to yourself. If you are always honest to yourself, it does not take much effort in always being honest with others.”
“We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.”
“Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.”
“Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.”
“Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.”
“If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.”
“The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.”

Source : Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “THE LOST WORLD COLLECTION: Out of Time’s Abyss, The Land That Time Forgot, The Moon Men, The Man-Eater and more (Illustrated): Caspak Trilogy, The Pellucidar Series, The Moon Trilogy, The People That Time Forgot, The Moon Maid, The Red Hawk, The Cave Girl, The Eternal Lover, Jungle Girl...”, p.1747, e-artnow

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