“Anger is fleeting, whereas hostility is enduring.”— Deborah Sandella Related Quotes “Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary.”— Jane Austen “The mind is powerful, but it needs something to hold on to so it doesn’t wander.”— Eknath Easwaran “And therefore a giant hammer of pure stupidity lashed out of the screen and felled me again. I lay mewling, clutching my head with my sweaty hands, whimpering for my Mommy to make it stop. MAKE IT STOP! But it did not stop. It. Did. Not. Stop. — The Desolation of Tolkien”— John C. Wright