"It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair."

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Source : "Dear Mariella" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. May 08, 2010.

Mariella Frostrup

#Despair Quotes #Disadvantages Quotes #Tots Quotes

“In the space of less than seven days, I attended a track meet in Boston, flew from there to Bowling Green for the National Jaycees, then to Rochester for the blind, Buffalo for another track meet, New York to shoot a film called The Black Athlete, Miami for Ford Motor Company, back up to New York for 45 minutes to deliver a speech, then into L. A. for another the same night.”
“The Super Bowl is a game. Life is for real. What I went through helped me get to where I am today. I won't forget. I can't forget. Because a man who forgets his past sometimes loses his soul and forgets where to go in the future.”
“I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.”
“The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.”
“Most books are about aspects of human knowledge - Few people write books about human ignorance, despite the fact that there would be much more to write about”
“An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.”
“You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.”
“What is life if not a gamble?”

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