"In any case, life is beautiful, extremely beautiful. And when you are old you appreciate it more. When you are older you think, you remember, you care and you appreciate. You are thankful for everything. For everything."

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Source : "Life is beautiful" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2006.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#Beautiful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Appreciate Quotes

“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.”
“Love and you will be loved, and you will be able to do all that you could not do unloved....”
“The real risk is not changing. I have to feel that I'm after something. If I make money, fine. But I'd rather be striving. It's the striving, man, it's that I want.”
“If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?”
“I really want to do well at this upcoming match! I'm going to try really really hard! Because it may be my dad's first memory of a match. I really want to win.”
“Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.”
“By the plain form of my delirium I will blast the obstruction of every form around me into something barely called shadow. I sail. I swim to you. I know the water.”

Source : Steve Erickson (2013). “Rubicon Beach: A Novel”, p.77, Open Road Media
“Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.”

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