"When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations"

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Source : Song: A Dream Like Mine

Bruce Cockburn

#Time Quotes #Generations Quotes #Moments Quotes

“Joy is something that we have to choose and then work for.”
“People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!”

Source : Letter from Horace Walpole to the Earl of Harcourt, 17 September 1778, in W. S. Lewis et al. (eds.) 'Horace Walpole's Correspondence' vol. 35 (1973) p. 489
“Most of the time you are growing up, people tell you what's wrong with you. Your coach tells you, your parents tell you, the teachers tell you when they grade you. I think that's very good in the early stages, because it helps you then develop skills. But at some point in your career, generally I think when you are in your teens, you look in a mirror and you have to say, despite all the bumps and warts, "I like that person I'm looking at, and let's just do our best."”
“The more perfect one becomes, the less he is inclined to speak of the imperfections of others.”
“All of us are driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do - that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.”
“Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.”

Source : Aphra Behn (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)”, p.1065, Delphi Classics
“Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.”
“If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.”

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