"Treasures are not for youth; at twenty years of age, one does not know how to be rich, or how to be loved."

-- Delphine de Girardin

#Years Quotes #Age Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“Everything is known through its opposite.”
“Loving yourself means being your own best friend, standing by yourself at all times, including times of failure; being there for yourself no matter what.”

Source : FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from Sep 21, 2014
“By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.”
“The assassination at Sarajevo was certainly the crucial precedent of the European war that its conspirators had sought, but was not the historical cause ... The assassination acted as a lever, prying the various powers into predictable paths.”
“To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.”

Source : "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.
“Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!”
“It's a dimissive term to say the Irish team are plucky because it rings back to the old days when we went out and gave it a lash, set our hair on fire and ran after the opposition for 20 minutes and, if they survived that, they beat us by 50 points.”
“Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.”

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