"I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along."

-- Armistead Maupin

#Rocks Quotes #Age Quotes #Fame Quotes

“At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul.”

Source : Hugh Black (1911). “Happiness”
“Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.”
“Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.”
“In the coming elections if you cannot decide whom to select, use the vote to reject.”
“Obey God in all things today! Drive out the enemy! Lay the ax to the root of the tree, and the capacity for Jesus Christ will be increased tomorrow.”
“Opposites attract - and then can't stand each other.”
“Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.”
“Envy was just the tax you paid on success.”

Source : David Nicholls (2011). “One Day”, p.172, Hachette UK

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