"In this world you've a soul for a compass And a heart for a pair of wings There's a star on the far horizon Rising bright in an azure sky For the rest of the time that you're given Why walk when you can fly?"

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Source : Song: Why Walk When You Can Fly?, 1994

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Stars Quotes

“As we get older, things seem less important.”
“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”
“What economic calculation requires is a monetary system whose functioning is not sabotaged by government interference.”
“An important contribution to a much-neglected but very important subject. No other author has set out to do what Davenport accomplishes, which is a systematic study of how key representatives of America's rising tide of religion attempted a theoretical understanding of, and practical response to, America's rising tide of commerce.”
“Dear designer of questionable intent, Please send me a photo of yourself. Please be wearing the knitted pants that you designed. It's not that I don't believe that there is anyone out there thing enough to wear horizontally stripped trousers knit from chunky wool, it's just that I would like to know whether you are deliberately cruel or whether you are the one woman these would look really great on.”
“If you believe you can only go so far, it is an obstacle.”
“The trains are central to Bombay just as the subway is central to New York; they are the great social laboratory of that city. And today, they became a charnel-house.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.”

Source : EDWIN MUIR (1960). “COLLECTED POEMS”

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