"For a small investment today we could be creating something that our grandchildren will thank us for"

-- Tim Smit

#Grandchildren Quotes #Creating Quotes #Today Quotes

“When you realize how hard it is to know the truth about yourself, you understand that even the most exhaustive and well-meaning autobiography, determined to tell the truth, represents, at best, a guess. There have been times in my life when I felt incredibly happy. Life was full. I seemed productive. Then I thought,"Am I really happy or am I merely masking a deep depression with frantic activity?" If I don't know such basic things about myself, who does?”
“It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.”
“As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”
“I think my strongest suit is comedy. I certainly have limits in other areas.”
“I'll never have a best friend who is a man. It just doesn't work that way. So many times young girls will be like, 'I'm a guy's girl.' And I'm like, 'No, you're not. There's no way a man can understand you like a woman, and you're a guy's girl because you're threatened by other women.' I was like that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.”
“We were created for the purpose of giving God's invisible character a glimpse of visibility.”
“Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.”

Source : Mary Norton (1989). “The Borrowers”, Sandpiper

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