"Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years."

-- Dale Jamieson

#Years Quotes #Apocalypse Quotes #Happens Quotes

“Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble. [Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes), Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]”
“The soul was never put in the body to stand still.”
“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.”

Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.3, Oxford University Press
“Insanity and psychosis can no longer be respected as meaningful [terms] - but are used by limited individuals in positions of social power to describe ways of behaving and thinking that are alien, threatening, and obscure to them.”
“The best piece of advice someone has ever given me was 'do it scared.' And no matter if you're scared, just go ahead and do it anyway because you might as well do it scared, so it will get done and you will feel so much better if you step out of your comfort zone.”
“There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars.”

Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.13
“Screw up often; but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments.”
“The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jun 14, 2011

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