"We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Happiness Quotes #Memories Quotes #Past Quotes

“Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?”

Source : "Glenn Beck holds up Maurice Strong as evidence of 'global government' conspiracy" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2010.
“Let heart and voice, like bells of silver, ring, the comfort that this day doth bring.”
“The completeness of this transformation appalled me. It was unlike anything I had imagined. I became two men, the serving one, and the one who panicked, who felt Negroid even to the depths of my entrails. I felt the beginings of great loneliness, not because I was a Negro, but because the man I had been, the self I knew, was hidden in the flesh of another.”
“When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.”

Source : "Culinary Kings-Turned TV Judges Cook Up Verdicts on Gordon Ramsay-Hosted MasterChef". The Daily Beast Interview, www.thedailybeast.com. July 27, 2010.
“I donâ€™t want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.”
“Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final”

Source : Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
“Only he who is without anything is without enemies.”

Source : Rafael Sabatini (2008). “Chronicles Of Captain Blood”, p.93, House of Stratus
“I'd never hurt another person.”

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