"Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt."

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Source : Simon Van Booy (2009). “Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories”, HarperCollins

Simon Van Booy

#Children Quotes #Disappointment Quotes #People Quotes

“I learned about life from life itself, love I learned in a single kiss and could teach no one anything except that I have lived with something in common among men.”
“Love is too prone to trust. Would I could think My charges false and all too rashly made.”
“He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.”
“What we need to do now is recognize that it is the sum total of human ingenuity that is responsible for the epidemics of chronic disease. Throughout most of human history, calories were scarce and hard to get, and physical activity unavoidable. Calories are now abundant, and physical activity is hard to get. We took an unstable, uncertain food supply and fixed it. What now passes as exercise and requires specialized footwear used to be called "survival." You had to do it. Now you never have to do it. We solved it too well. Now we don't need our muscles for anything.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Freedom is a muscle...you have to exercise it.”
“Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains”
“In truth I suspect that merely slowing down is not a very satisfying answer. What I need has less to do with my pace of life than my peace of life. At any speed, I crave a deep and lasting inner peace. And if it's solace I'm after, I don't need to pace myself like a turtle, change jobs or set up house on a quiet island. It is usually frenetic living, not high energy, that robs my peace of mind.”
“You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.”

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