"the longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt ..."

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Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle (1887). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#Mother Quotes #Loss Quotes #World Quotes

“With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.”
“I am a fairly optimistic person... If everything that I'm involved in now suddenly fell away, I know I would cope because I've coped before.”
“The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.”
“Kindness is the touch of an angel's hand.”
“I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.”

Source : Leonard Bernstein (1982). “Findings”, Anchor
“A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise.”
“Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!”
“I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.”

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