"We aged a hundred years, and this happened in a single hour: the short summer had already died, the body of the ploughed plains smoked."

-- Anna Akhmatova

#Summer Quotes #Years Quotes #Body Quotes

“Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.”
“At every wedding someone stays home.”
“Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.”

Source : Gail Sheehy (2013). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, p.349, Penguin
“My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.”

Source : "Karyn Parsons’ Mission To Share The Untold Stories Of Black History Heroes". Interview with Jessica Dickerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2014.
“While no amount of financial wealth can guarantee an experience of prosperity, it is possible to experience prosperity at almost any level of income, except when we are unable to meet our basic physical needs.”
“There is no happiness without hard work”
“I've spent enough time with soldiers to know that once they get to know you and they loosen up and become themselves, they are some of the biggest hams and most charismatic, cocky, fun, humorous guys I've ever met.”
“The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.”

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