Romanticising Some Pain Quotes & Sayings

We're working with paint today and I pick the easel next to Jake's. It thrills him.
"What do you want?"
"I want to apologize if you're offended by the way I am," I tell him. "But that's the way I am with everyone. I was just trying to make you feel welcome."
"That's the crappiest apology I've ever heard."
"Well, that's because I'm not really sorry."
He rolls his eyes. "Right. — Courtney Summers

Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more of yourself. — Keith Ferrazzi

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives. — Jared Diamond

To trust yourself, to be yourself, to become yourself is neither narcissistic nor prideful. It is mature faith. It is discovering who you were meant to be as the fullest expression of honoring the One who created you. — Kyndall Rae Rothaus

Renew your mind daily by reading the Holy Scriptures. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
it is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you everywhere
like a shadow or a friend. — Naomi Shihab Nye

Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you. — Arthur Levitt

Romance lurks in the most unlikely places. — Ruskin Bond

Life is like an echo; if you love life, it loves you back. — Debasish Mridha