"Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90"

-- Isak Dinesen

#Teenage Quotes #Men Quotes #Flowering Quotes

“When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!”
“It seems to me that all of us, in our own way, have our own personal lagos. We all have within us a voice that is whispering doubt, that is whispering suspicion, that's telling us there's something wrong, there's something missing, there's something that should be different. And we easily become hypnotized by that voice of doubt.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.”
“When you have big dreams, youâ€™re going to have big challenges. If you were an average person you would have average problems.”
“Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.”
“I pissed away over ten million dollars On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I'm back”
“A man's only as old as the woman he feels.”
“It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferentâ€”lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.”

Source : Tove Jansson (2007). “Fair Play: A Novel”, Sort of

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