Durgin Park Boston Quotes & Sayings

To become a better you, admit that you were not born for the floor. Refuse to embrace mediocrity anytime anywhere. — Israelmore Ayivor

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness. — Rick Yancey

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do — George Bernard Shaw

It was strange that Walter with all his cleverness should have so little sense of proportion. Because he had dressed a doll in gorgeous robes and set her in a sanctuary to worship her, and then discovered that the doll was filled with sawdust he could neither forgive himself nor her. His soul was lacerated. It was all make-believe that he had lived on, and when the truth shattered it he thought reality itself was shattered. It was true enough, he would not forgive her because he could not forgive himself. — W. Somerset Maugham

Jane Austen has taught me to view the ridiculous and rude with amusement rather than disdain. — Natalie Tyler

It meant that Diana had not waited for any explanation, however halting and imperfect, but had condemned him unheard; and this showed a much harder, far less affectionate woman than the Diana he had known or had thought he knew - a mythical person, no doubt created by himself. It had of course been evident from her letter, which made no reference to his; but he had not chosen to see the evidence and now it was absolutely forced upon his sight it made his eyes sting and tingle again. And deprived of his myth he felt extraordinarily lonely. — Patrick O'Brian