"And if you canâ€™t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it..."

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C.P. Cavafy

#Trying Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Want Quotes

“Money talks — but credit has an echo.”
“So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.”
“All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.”
“The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat.”
“That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a mere infant among the old ladies and gentlemen that tread foot-paths in the sky ...”

Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
“I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.”
“No one hid their interest when I walked into the room. I'm not sure if it was the news about Boo or my general appearance. At home, people would have asked. People would have been crawling all over me for information. At Wexford, they seemed to extract what they wanted to know by covert staring.”

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