"I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool."

-- Bernard Manning

#Silly Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.”
“If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.”
“I guess what I'd like to say is that people in Sierra Leone are human beings, just like Americans. They want to send their kids to school; they want to live in peace; they want to have their basic rights of life just like everyone else. I think we all owe an obligation to support people who want to do that.”
“A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.”
“She understood his passion because she felt the same way: as if nothing was more important than the touch of her skin to his, as if she'd die if he left her.”
“There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested...”
“Leo drummed his fingers. â€œGreat. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget. Remind me to invent that, next time.â€ Hazel frowned. â€œWhat is a chicken nugget?â€ â€œOh, manâ€¦â€ Leo shook his head in amazement. â€œThat's right. Youâ€™ve missed the last, like, seventy years. Well, my apprentice, a chicken nuggetâ€”â€ â€œDoesnâ€™t matter,â€ Annabeth interrupted.”
“As we gain satisfaction from artificial substitutes for nature we forget that there is no known substitute for Nature, the real thing and its eons of intelligent, life supportive, experience. Each substitute we create falls short of nature's balanced perfection, thus producing our pollution, garbage and relationship conflicts.”

Source : Michael J. Cohen (2003). “The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems”, p.84, Trafford Publishing

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