"The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old."

-- Brian Johnson

#Years Quotes #People Quotes #Four Quotes

“When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated.”

Source : Cynthia Voigt (2013). “The Callender Papers”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
“Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!”
“It is consciousness that sets all limits of life, if there are any limits.”
“Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.”
“The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.”

Source : Brandon Mull, Brandon Dorman (2007). “Fablehaven”, p.146, Simon and Schuster
“Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.”
“beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them ...”

Source : Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.6

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