"I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die."

-- Emily Dickinson

#Hurt Quotes #Trying Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“To view your life as blessed does not require you to deny your pain. It simply demands a more complicated vision, one in which a condition or event is not either good or bad but is, rather, both good and bad, not sequentially, but simultaneously.”

Source : Nancy Mairs (1991). “Carnal Acts: Essays”, Perennial
“We are losing the war against cancer. The prohibition of new carcinogenic products, reduction of toxins in use, and right-to-know laws - these are among the legislative proposals which could reverse the cancer epidemic.”
“A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.”

Source : Douglas Pagels (2006). “Everyone Should Have a Book Like This to Share with a Special Friend”, p.7, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.
“The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.”
“Instead of spending the time and the money and the manpower on the front end, when children first transgress - and when they can be helped and guided and set straight - we are waiting and waiting and doing nothing, until it is too late, and they commit crimes so serious that all society wants to do is punish instead of rehabilitate.”

Source : Edward Humes (2015). “No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court”, p.106, Simon and Schuster
“Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.”
“The only loser who walks away from a wise man is the one who walks away.”
“It's not what you've been given, it's what you do with what you've got.”

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