“If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't to bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed" but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm,!” -- Lemony Snicket, from "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid".
- much love, light and laughter, Ananya.
Scatter joy ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson. ~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~ We can't all be stars, but we can all twinkle. We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.
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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990) US "urban planner, historian" "Technics and Civilization, ch. 8, sct. 12 (1934)."
Ask me anything on Charles Dickens. Mrs. Micawber to young Copperfield. "Boy, as I have frequently had occasion to observe, When the stomach is empty, the spirits are low."
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