"That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels."

-- Abraham Verghese

#Thank You Quotes #Blessed Quotes #Angel Quotes

“I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.”

Source : Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.196, Anchor
“Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.”

Source : Paul Bowles (1979). “Collected stories, 1939-1976”
“I'm done with F1 unfortunately. I'm too old, the train has passed”
“My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.”
“I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years”
“...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.”
“The only advice that I'm in the mood to give - and that I give regularly - to young people is this: fight for what you believe in. You will lose, just like I have lost, all the battles. But only one you may win. The one that you engage every morning, in front of the mirror.”

Source : "Soltanto un giornalista" by Indro Montanelli, Rizzoli, Milano, 2002.
“The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.”

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