"The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me."

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Richard Ford

#Interesting Quotes #Way Quotes

“The word "yoga" literally means "uniting", because when you're doing it you are uniting your mind and your body. You can tell this almost immediately because your mind will be thinking, "Ouch, that hurts," and your body will say, "I know." And your mind will think, "You have to get out of this position." And your body will say, "I agree with you, but I can't right now. I think I'm stuck.”
“Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can beâ€¦So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through oneâ€™s mind.”
“If a felon attacks you and lives, he will reasonably conclude that he can do it again. By submitting to him, you not only imperil your own life, but you jeopardize the lives of others.”
“In one word, this ideal is that you are divine.”
“To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.”
“People with heavy physical vibrations rule the world.”

Source : "My Thirty Years' War: An Autobiography" by Margaret Caroline Anderson, ch. 6 (p. 251), 1930.
“It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.”
“If you grew up in a house where you weren't loved, you didn't know there was an alternative.”

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