"He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience."

-- T. S. Eliot

#Patience Quotes #Dying Quotes #Littles Quotes

“All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.”
“Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.”

Source : Samuel Richardson (1990). “Clarissa, or, The history of a young lady: comprehending the most important concerns of private life”
“Whatever happens, happens. I can't give you a prediction because Jim (Irsay) and I will sit down at some point and he'll get a feel for where I am and Iâ€™ll get a sense of what direction he wants to go. Right now, I have no idea.”
“I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.”
“I'm always telling my kids to be themselves and let their personalities show in other ways than with their mouths.”
“The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.”
“If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.”

Source : Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”
“Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds.”

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