"Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is."

-- Max Muller

#Caring Quotes #Years Quotes #Progress Quotes

“A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.”

Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”
“You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.”

Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House
“I'm a huge, huge comic book fan. I love the superhero movies so much. If I had to be one of the Avengers, I would go with Thor. I would have to. I just think I look the part too much, and I'm a fan of all of them, but Thor would be something that I think I could put on. I think I could make it happen.”
“I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.”
“All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.”

Source : Eli Siegel (1968). “James and the children: a consideration of Henry James's The turn of the screw”, Definition Pr
“Again, something that's very strange and odd, you will find sometimes that immigrants that have been here for many years and already have their citizenship might be the ones against additional immigration. We've seen that also.”
“I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed.”
“When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who shall endeavour both these. It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.”

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