"The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid."

-- Brad Mehldau

#Loneliness Quotes #Kids Quotes #Reflection Quotes

“I am persuaded that we are all surrounded by an atmosphere - a separate, sensitive, distinct envelope extending some distance from our visible persons - and whenever my invisible atmosphere is invaded, it affects my whole nervous system. The proximity of any bodies but those I love best is unendurable to my body.”
“Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.”
“To be able to see into a friends' dream is a dream in itself. -Doctor KÅsaku Tokita (Paprika)”

Source : FaceBook post by Yasutaka Tsutsui from Apr 18, 2014
“All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?”

Source : Collected in Notebooks 1960-1994 (1994).
“In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept surgeon cut both himself and, somehow, a bystander while blundering about during an amputation. Both men contracted an infection and died, as did the patient. Nightingale commented that it was the only surgery she'd ever seen with 300 percent mortality.”
“I'll never forget what it was like to hold my wife and children again, to know that I was home, to know that I had managed to survive.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely.”
“When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.”

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