"There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom."

-- William George Jordan

#Simple Quotes #Our World Quotes #Escaping Quotes

“I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.”
“One of the best investments we can make in a childâ€™s life is high-quality early education.”
“Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or worse. Consequently, lies about climate change gain credence even when they fly in the face of the science that supposedly is their basis.”
“Everything you want also wants you.”
“Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.”
“I wouldn't change a thing in my own life, but I'd like to go back in time anyway though, just to some sort of eras that I wish I'd lived in - like the '60s. I'd love to have been in London in the '60s, partying away.”
“That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.”

Source : "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.
“I rubbed the contents of one bag onto my upper arm on the evening of June 7, just before I went to bed. I thought: Well, it can't hurt. I flushed the packaging down the toilet.”

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