"Why had I been so afraid? I had not loved enough. I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta...I had had all my time, all my chances. I could never do it again, never make it right. I had not loved enough...I had not passed up all my chances to give love or receive it, and I had the future, at least, to try to do better."

-- Lorene Cary

#Giving Quotes #Trying Quotes #Chance Quotes

“Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.”
“And one rose in a tent of sea and gave A darkening shudder; water fell away; The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.”

Source : Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr
“When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.”
“Bloggers now have no concept. They are given things; they put them on, take pictures, and then just disappear from sight. Who cares?”
“There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.”

Source : Song: Anthem
“In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.”

Source : William Dampier (2012). “A Voyage to New Holland”, p.27, tredition
“Father was the most unreconciled taxpayer I ever knew.”
“Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 26, 2015

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