"Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind."

-- Samuel Richardson

#Happiness Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Years Quotes

“These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to alchemy, anatomy, and electricity. If it went bang, involved blood, or promised to unlock the secrets of the universe, there was sure to be a vampire around.”

Source : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.26, Penguin
“One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.”

Source : Source: www.redividerjournal.org
“Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.”
“Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.”
“Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you . . . . From the practice of the purest virtue, you may be assured you will derive the most sublime comforts in every moment of life, and in the moment of death.”
“We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.”
“The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.”

Source : Robert Owen (1841). “A development of the principles and plans on which to establish self-supporting home colonies: as a most secure and profitable investment for capital, and an effectual means permanently to remove the causes of ignorance, poverty, and crime”, p.7
“Dreams are not real; but when you are inside a dream, it is real to you.”

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