"What a glorious spectacle is that of the labor of man upon the earth! It includes everything in it that is glorious. Look around and tell me what you see, that is worth seeing, that is not the work of your hands and the hands of your fellows;--the multitudes of all ages."

-- Alfred William Howitt

#Men Quotes #Hands Quotes #Age Quotes

“Human beings want to see each other. We want to be heard by each other.”
“The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.”
“Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.”
“So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.”
“Fear is something i don't you experience unless you have a choice. If you have a choice, you're liable to be afraid. But without a choice, what is there to be afraid of? You just go along and do what has to be done.”
“Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart.”

Source : Lisa Scottoline, Francesca Serritella (2010). “My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman”, p.135, Macmillan
“The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.”
“In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.”

Source : Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.50, Faber & Faber

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