"Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank."

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Source : Mary Mapes Dodge (1866). “Hans Brinker: Or, The Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland”, p.262

Mary Mapes Dodge

#Grateful Quotes #Sunshine Quotes #Loss Quotes

“Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.”
“If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.”
“John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chainsâ€”and he withdrew his fireâ€”until the day when men withdraw their vultures.”
“Klaus Toppmoller: hair like David Gower and dress sense like Austin Powers.”
“The teaching on karma starts with the principle that people experience happiness and sorrow based on a combination of their past and present intentions. If we act with unskillful intentions either for ourselves or for others, weâ€™re going to suffer. If we act with skillful intentions, weâ€™ll experience happiness. So if we want to be happy, we have to train our intentions to always be skillful.”
“When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.”
“Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice.”

Source : "Kenzaburo Oe, The Art of Fiction No. 195". Interviewed with Sarah Fay, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 2007.
“It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.”

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