"Don't live every day as if it were your last. Live every day as if it were your first."

--

Paulo Coelho

#Inspirational Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.”
“We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.”
“To even be called the 'teen queen' is crazy.”
“The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of the east in wedge-shaped formation, and the mist lifted in soft wreaths of sun-shot silver. Colour came back to the world. The grass glowed with a green so vivid that it seemed pulsing, like flame, from some hidden fire in the earth, the distant woods took on all the amazing deep crimsons and purples of their winter colouring, the banks were studded with their jewels of lichens and bright moss, and above the wet hedges shone with sun-shot orbs of light.”
“Credibility is a leader's currency. With it, he or she is solvent; without it, he or she is bankrupt.”
“I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.”

Source : "I'm passionate about life". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. June 24, 2005.
“When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.”

Source : Will Durant (2014). “The Complete Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage, Life of Greece, Caesar and Christ, Age of Faith, Renaissance, Age of Reason Begins, Age of Louis XIV, Age of Voltaire, Rousseau and Revolution, Age of Napoleon, Reformation”, p.1983, Simon and Schuster
“Why should I read something someone made up when real events are so interesting?”

Source : "Frank Buckles: America's Last Living World War I Veteran" by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Staff, www.tbo.com. February 6, 2008.

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