"I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings. We do not wish to see children precocious, making great strides in their early years like sprouts, producing a soft and perishable timber, but better if they expand slowly at first, as if contending with difficulties, and so are solidified and perfected. Such trees continue to expand with nearly equal rapidity to extreme old age."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”
“I do have rituals. I'm a fairly superstitious person.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't care about lasting. I just want right now.”

Source : Caitlin Kittredge (2011). “The Iron Thorn The Iron Codex Book One”, p.356, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“I love you more than my own skin.”
“A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.”
“I was watching an HBO special on eating habits and different cultures, and they showed in China how people eat cats ... I happened to be sitting on the couch with my cat, and once I saw that, it just put everything in perspective.”
“Don't leave this world without giving it your all.”
“We exploit celebrities by caring about shallow things like whether they've gotten a facelift. And we violate their children constantly. But we also love them in a way.”

Source : "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

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