"Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached"

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Source : Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.125

Kenneth Grahame

#Animal Quotes #Independence Quotes #Limits Quotes

“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go beyond the norm.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think life without Coronation Street would be unthinkable. It's part of all our lives.”
“My name is Clark, and I have come out to see what you brave fellows are doing in Kentucky and to lend you a helping hand, if necessary.”

Source : "Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone". Book by Nancy Ellis, 2011.
“After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.”
“As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.”
“Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.”
“Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.”
“There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other people. Very often they're not around. There's also a metaphysical loneliness. We all feel it. The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share. You take a step in a house, you start moving around the house, no one else moves with you. You're walking by yourself.”

Source : David Ignatow, Ralph J. Mills (1980). “Open between us”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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