"They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here."

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Source : 'They Are All Gone' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

Henry Vaughan

#Light Quotes #Age Quotes #Gone Quotes

“A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.”
“My activities have never had anything to do with the idea of becoming famous or achieving success. I have always been concerned with getting people to listen to me. In everything I do ... my aim is to make people listen. I want to communicate the things that I love and in which I believe, because I think that people can derive a general benefit from them. What I really want is success in a philosophical sense: I want people to grasp something of the ideas and hopes which I express in painting.”

Source : Julia Brown, Helen Frankenthaler, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1998). “After Mountains and Sea: Frankenthaler 1956-1959”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
“Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.”

Source : E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”
“It's frightful that people who are so ignorant have so much influence.”

Source : "George Orwell: A Life in Letters".
“It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.”

Source : "Testimony" by Dmitri Shostakovich, translated by Antonina W. Bouis, New York: Limelight, (p. 8), 2004.
“Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished.”
“We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.”

Source : Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.166, Broadway Books
“There is no limit to what God can do through us if we are a yielded and purified people.”

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