"You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope."

-- Nhat Hanh

#Years Quotes #Despair Quotes #Calm Quotes

“As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.”
“No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.”

Source : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek”, p.379, Simon and Schuster
“My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.”
“It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something”
“This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this moment on the porch, holding hands with Cameron while he shared himself with me. I didnâ€™t want it to be something on the fringes of my memory like so many other things about Cameron and myself.”
“I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.”
“The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways:1st - When they are neglected in infancy2nd - When they are overworked by their employer, and are thus rendered incompetent from ignorance to make a good use of high wages when they can procure them.3rd - When they are paid low wages for their labour”

Source : "Two Memorials on Behalf of the Working Classes". Book by Robert Owen, 1818.
“Boyhood proves that there's still good roles for women over 40, as long as you get hired when you're under 40.”

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