"He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life."

-- T. E. Lawrence

#Art Quotes #Maturity Quotes #Skills Quotes

“I died to the law so that I might live for God.”
“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”

Source : Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.208, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Life doesn't just happen to you; you receive everything in your life based on what you've given.”
“Having an eating disorder doesn't show â€˜strength.â€™ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long.Â Starving is not a â€˜dietâ€™ and throwing up isn't something that only extremely thin men or women do. Eating disorders do not discriminate..Neither does any other mental illness. These are deadly diseases that are taking lives daily. So please, let's be cautious of the words we use when discussing ED's and other mental illnesses.”
“Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!”
“The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.”
“The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.”
“Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. When I ride through Beverly Hills in the early morning, and all the sprinklers have turned off, the scents that wash over me are just heavenly. Being House is like flying, too. You're free of the gravity of what people think.”

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