"For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity."

-- Hermann Hesse

#Class Quotes #Optimism Quotes #Contentment Quotes

“I reached over and squeezed Curranâ€™s hand. â€œCome on, you, me, a platter of barely seared meat, it will be great. If we see the navigators, we can make fun of the way they hold their forks.”
“Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.”
“Quite apart from the problem of the vote, it's bad for the image of Parliament that people take the trouble to come up and are not allowed to see their MP”
“I just want to be able to be creative.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.”
“To convey oneâ€™s mood in seventeen syllables is very diffic”
“A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.”

Source : Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “Elders and Betters”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. To all who love her, who open to her the doors of their veins, she gives of her strength, sustaining them with her own measureless tremor of dark life. Touch the earth, love the earth, honor the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. For the gifts of life are the earth's and they are given to all, and they are the songs of birds at daybreak, Orion and the Bear, and dawn seen over ocean from the beach.”

Source : Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.38, David R. Godine Publisher

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