"Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Time Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Growth Quotes

“Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.”
“We are not the sum of our possessions.”
“To leave the world richerâ€”that is the ultimate success.”
“The thing no one tells you about surviving, about the mere act of holding out, is how many hours are nothing because nothing happens. They also donâ€™t tell you about how you can share your deepest secrets with someone, kiss them, and the next hour itâ€™s like thereâ€™s nothing between you because not everything can mean something all the time or youâ€™d be crushed under the weight of it.”

Source : Courtney Summers (2012). “This Is Not a Test”, p.223, Macmillan
“We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.”
“Failure to love is almost like murder.”

Source : "Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak, 1957.
“Intimate singing had a wonderful style in the '30s and '40s. It came out of Broadway and the jazz of Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday. But Sinatra created the best romantic era that we've ever had.”
“You specialize in something until one day it is specializing in you.”

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