"O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed."

-- W. H. Auden

#Regret Quotes #Hands Quotes #Water Quotes

“They play in the Meadow. The dancing girl with the dark hair and blue eyes. The boy with blond curls and gray eyes, struggling to keep up with her on his chubby toddler legs. It took five, ten, fifteen years for me to agree. But Peeta wanted them so badly. When I first felt her stirring inside of me, I was consumed with a terror that felt as old as life itself. Only the joy of holding her in my arms could tame it.”
“Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli”
“Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.”

Source : Dr. Peter Marshall (2016). “Mr. Jones, Meet the Master: Sermons And Prayers Of Peter Marshall”, p.208, Pickle Partners Publishing
“In the day I can smile though I wanna die / Hold on, hold on / I can keep it together for a little while / and be strong, so strong / But when the sun goes down and I'm all alone / I haven't the strength to fight / That's when my tears give in to the night”

Source : Song: Hold On
“Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.”

Source : Baruch College Class Interview, www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.
“The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.”

Source : Algernon Blackwood (2015). “The Wolves of God: Blackwood Collections”, p.146, 谷月社
“Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem.”
“Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.”

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