"His laughter... sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight."

-- Joseph Lelyveld

#Laughter Quotes #Son Quotes #Water Quotes

“When you hear that my body has ceased to exist, please do not feel sad. Just look deeply and see that my life and work continue in so many friends, so many young people, in their own ways and through their work. I will continue in everyone and everything I have ever touched. I have nothinng to fear and nothing to regret.”
“Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.”
“Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.”

Source : Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays”, p.24, VM eBooks
“What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?”
“The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper lip of a salmon, drag him endlessly around the water until he loses his strength, pull him to the bank, hit him on the head with a stone, and you may well become fisherman of the year. Shoot.the salmon and you'll never be asked again.”
“What the hell kind of family did I marry into?”
“Feeding people is a way of loving them.”
“In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.”

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