"I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential."

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Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

Steve Toltz

#Real Quotes #Loss Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I have indeed - praise be to God - attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.”
“Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.”
“We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.”
“A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.”
“What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis, it is not what you do for you children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.”
“She [Eva Braun] was always complaining later on, "I know nothing that's going on." They [with Adolf Hitler] talked about other things: dogs, movies, music, Munich gossip, who was going with who, who was cheating on their spouses, who was drinking too much or trying to quit. All sorts of local things like that.”
“Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable”
“You can be the outcast or be the backlash of somebody's lack of love. Or you can start speaking up.”

Source : Song: Brave, Album: The Blessed Unrest, 2013

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