"The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people."

-- Alvar Aalto

#People Quotes #Goal Quotes #House Quotes

“As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris”
“No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.48
“Those who sage as they age view aging not as a hardship but, rather, as a precious gift filled with promise and replete with possibilities. We may age graciously into simplicity and love, allowing the power from our sense of well-being to permeate the atmosphere around us, or we may vault into older age revved up and in high gear.”
“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”
“So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.”

Source : Dirk Bogarde (2012). “A Particular Friendship”, p.23, A&C Black
“I guess I had always sort of fantasized that a guy would see me and get past the ponytail and the glasses and the giant sweatshirt to discover how insanely awesome I am, then come and whisk me off into that magical teenager fairytale where everyone else gets to prance around.”
“It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both.”

Source : "BLACKROCK: 'Investors Should Buckle Up For More Volatility Ahead'" by Mamta Badkar, www.businessinsider.com. July 21, 2014.
“A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.”

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