"I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years."

-- Rick Springfield

#Kids Quotes #Years Quotes

“You must every day make higher ground. You must deny yourself to make progress with God. You must refuse every- thing that is not pure and holy. God wants you pure in heart. He wants you to have an intense desire after holiness... Two things will get you to leap out of yourselves into the promises of God today. One is purity, and the other is FAITH, which is kindled more and more BY PURITY.”
“Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in this world close to those who need me, those who I need, in order to learn, comprehend and rediscover that I can be and I want to be better at every moment.”
“How many times do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain Unravelled from the trembling main And threading the eye of a yellow star:- So many times do I love again.”

Source : Thomas Lovell Beddoes, “Song From Torrismond”
“No man of common sense will value a woman the less, for not giving herself up at the first attack, or for not accepting his proposal without enquiring into his person or character; on the contrary, he must think her the weakest of all creatures in the world, as the rate of men now goes; in short, he must have a very contemptible opinion of her capacities, nay, even of her understanding, that having but one cast for her life, shall cast that life away at once, and make matrimony like death, be a leap in the dark.”
“I've tried to use the recognition as validation that I'm doing the kind of work that people are interested in and to feel that my work is a contribution.”
“A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.”

Source : "The Frame We Put Around Our Circumstances" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2017.
“I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.”
“Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.”

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