Theodosia Garrison quotes

“The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.”
-- Theodosia Garrison

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“I have known sorrow-therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily Than those who never sorrowed upon earth And know not laughter's worth. I have known laughter-therefore I May sorrow with you far more tenderly Than those who never guess how sad a thing Seems merriment to one heart's suffering.”
-- Theodosia Garrison

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“When the red wrath perisheth, when the dulled swords fail, These three who have walked with Death these shall prevail. Hell bade all its millions rise; Paradise sends three: Pity, and Self-sacrifice, and Charity.”
-- Theodosia Garrison

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“I have known sorrow - therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily Than those who never sorrowed upon earth And know not laughter's worth. I have known laughter - therefore I May sorrow with you far more tenderly Than those who never guess how sad a thing Seems merriment to one heart's suffering.”
-- Theodosia Garrison

Source : "Knowledge". Poem by Theodosia Garrison. "Something to Live By". Book by Dorothea S. Kopplin, 2016.

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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”

“A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.”

“...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.”

“What you do on the court, off the court, in the classroom, it's all the same. Your habits, the way you treat class, your relationships - it's all the same. Do it right or don't do it.”

Source : "Allan Houston's biggest swish". Interview with Jared Zwerling, www.espn.com. October 19, 2011.

“If you don’t write the book you have to write, everything breaks.”

“I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.”

“As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.”

“In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.”

“I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.”

“One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.”