"Fences are made for those who cannot fly."

--

Elbert Hubbard

#Dream Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Fence Quotes

“I have had heart surgery three times, so I know what it was like to have pins and needles stuck in you.”
“Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.”
“...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly enjoys them. One has without truly having. The consumer is right-there is pleasure to be had in good things, a sacred and almost unspeakable pleasure, but the consumer wrongly thinks that one finds this pleasure by having more and more possessions instead of possessing them more truly through grateful contemplation. And here we are, living in an economy that perpetuates this tragedy.”
“Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.”
“All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.”
“If you're paying attention to human interactions - to the gap between who we are and who we think we are, or the gap between what happened and what we remember - you're going to end up thinking (obliquely or otherwise) about what it means to act ethically, and I think that's all to the good.”
“Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.”
“Combat isn't where you might die -- though that does happen -- it's where you find out whether you get to keep on living. Don't underestimate the power of that revelation. Don't underestimate the things young men will wager in order to play that game one more time.”

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