"You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth."

-- Gary Lutz

#Tired Quotes #Youth Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.”
“Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.”
“When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally..”
“For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.”
“Maybe I think too much for my own good.”
“Treasure, that is what you are”

Source : Song: Treasure, Album: Unorthodox Jukebox, 2012
“Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void, but the vastness of the solitude. It's as well if you are frightened of solitude. It's a sign that you have come to the moment of your birth.”
“I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.”

Source : Smedley Darlington Butler (2016). “War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, p.17, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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