"Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day."

-- Muriel Barbery

#Compassion Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors.”

Source : "No Child Left Inside" by Isabel Cowles, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2009.
“Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.”
“A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.”

Source : Walter Bagehot (1910). “Literary Studies (Miscellaneous Essays): Hartley Coleridge. Shakespeare, the man. William Cowper. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Edward Gibbon. Percy Bysshe Shelley”
“I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings. We do not wish to see children precocious, making great strides in their early years like sprouts, producing a soft and perishable timber, but better if they expand slowly at first, as if contending with difficulties, and so are solidified and perfected. Such trees continue to expand with nearly equal rapidity to extreme old age.”
“War is a racket. It always has been... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.”

Source : Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.5, The Forlorn Press
“If I can drop two touchdowns a game and win, I'll take it every time.”
“So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.”

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