Edward George, Baron George quotes

“We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves”
-- Edward George, Baron George

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“No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy.”
-- Edward George, Baron George

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“Beware of parting! The true sadness is not in the pain of the parting; it is in the when and the how you are to meet again with the face about to vanish from your view.”
-- Edward George, Baron George

Source : "What Will He Do with It?". Book by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1857.

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“Will our souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream?”
-- Edward George, Baron George

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“I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.”
-- Edward George, Baron George

Source : "The last days of Pompeii". Book by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1834.

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“If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.”

“You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.”

“No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.”

“The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.”

“Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.”

Source : "Alain de Botton's Healing Arts" by Joshua Rothman, www.newyorker.com. November 19, 2013.

“I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The anxiety would be way too much for me. I don't have as strong a backbone as those other show writers.”

“Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a condition exacerbated by Hitler's strictly vegetarian diet.”

“suffering is the essence of success!!!”

“I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.”

“If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.”