"Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp."

-- George Santayana

#Memories Quotes #Self Quotes #Bird Quotes

“A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.”
“I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.”

Source : "Shooting star: Tim Cahill". Interview with Dan Rookwood, www.smh.com.au. April 2, 2009.
“A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.”
“There is only truth to be found - no lies, no shams, no illusions, no hypocrisy. Just a truthful place, where all beings are governed by a set of perfect laws that have never changed and never will.”
“We come into this world naked, covered in our own blood, screaming in terror - and it doesn't have to stop there if you know how to live right”
“The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.”
“A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.”
“Man has discovered in nature the wonderful notion of that all-mighty being whose law he worships. Fundamentally in everyone there is the feeling for this all-mighty, which we call god (that is to say, the dominion of natural laws throughout the whole universe).”

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