"At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic."

-- Naguib Mahfouz

#Birthday Quotes #Age Quotes #Pessimistic Quotes

“I think it is in the interest of the people of [Serbia] that no one, not even the government, can get away with the crime, whoever the victim.”
“We can't change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals are things, tools, machines, commodities, resources here for our use to the idea that as sentient beings they have their own inherent value and dignity.”

Source : "OneKind talks animal ethics with Andrew Linzey". onekind.scot.archived.website. June 21, 2011.
“...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.”

Source : Marianne Wiggins (2008). “The Shadow Catcher: A Novel”, p.79, Simon and Schuster
“We only have one life and one body to care of, and we better do it right. You never know what tomorrow may bring and so we better live this life the best we can and be grateful for everything we have.”
“Big dreams are risky business. The psyche can be fiendish, puckish, exalted, imperious, tender, sardonic, faithful, pestilential--whatever rivets our attention upon the task of psychic growth. It is not so hard to find at least a little sympathy for theologian Martin Luther, who prayed to God not to send him any dreams at all, fearful he could not distinguish between those of divine origin and those sent by the Devil.”
“I want to feel that every trip I make has enhanced me as a person.”
“I didn't want to just rally at the baseline, even though that happened a lot.”
“Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.”

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