"As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities."

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Source : James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.313

James Anthony Froude

#Life Quotes #Learning Quotes #Acceptance Quotes

“We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.”
“Take a random selection of photographs of America in 2012 and 2002 and 1992 and, except for the skinny jeans and the porkpie hats, you'll be hard-pressed to tell the years in which the pictures were taken.”
“I don't like writing essays or theory.”
“I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.”
“Nothing is nicer than diving with your eyes open. Diving down as far as the shimmering legs of your mother and father who have just come back from swimming and now are wading to shore through the shallow water. Nothing more fun than to tickle them and to hear, muffled by the water, how they shriek because they know it will make their child happy.”

Source : Jenny Erpenbeck (2011). “Visitation”, p.62, Granta Books
“One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.”
“The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.”
“It is painful to comprehend how the mind becomes fixed little by little as time goes by. The mind is the executioner of reality, the slayer of the true; the mind is the destroyer of love.”

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