"The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being."

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Source : Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.23, Knopf

Florida Scott-Maxwell

#Gay Quotes #Brave Quotes #Balance Quotes

“Yes, but .Â .Â .â€ She hesitated, her gaze finally coming to me. â€œI survived because I fell in love.â€ With you was unspoken.”
“I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.”
“With a little effort, she could get up by herself”

Source : Paolo Giordano (2009). “The Solitude of Prime Numbers”, p.379, Random House
“Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.”
“Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.”
“I definitely believe in ghosts.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is my responsibility to make sure that the fear is overcomeâ€¦ â€œThis attack must instead free our speech about Islamic fundamentalism. We must not be silenced.”
“When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.”

Source : Victor Cousin (1852). “Course of the History of Modern Philosophy”, p.32

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