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feeling sorry for yourself Quotes
Four of the best book quotes about feeling sorry for yourself
01
″‘An eye is nothing!’ says Magpie. ‘How would you feel if you couldn’t run?‘”
Margaret Wild
author
Fox
book
Magpie
character
eyes
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injuries
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handicaps
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feeling sorry for yourself
concepts
02
“To think that you can laugh; you, who have met with the most terrible misfortune that can possibly happen to a human being!”
Selma Lagerlof
author
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
book
Nils Holgersson
character
misfortunes
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feeling sorry for yourself
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being serious
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to laugh
concepts
03
“He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn’t work.”
Gary Paulsen
author
Hatchet
book
Brian Robeson
character
rules
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crying
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survival
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reflection
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realizations
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looking back
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not working
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caves
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feeling sorry for yourself
concepts
04
“The grieving have urgent reasons, even an urgent need, to feel sorry for themselves.”
Joan Didion
author
The Year of Magical Thinking
book
needs
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reasons
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urgency
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grieving
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feeling sorry for yourself
concepts
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