"An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice."

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Source : Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

Agnes Repplier

#Dream Quotes #Appreciation Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position”
“I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?”
“I started out writing largely about my own sex life, but I always tried to bring that around to the bigger picture, and how I was or wasn't in sync with the rest of the culture. And I think people appreciated that I was frank and honest about sex, but also political.”
“As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval.”
“I enjoyed my upbringing, my siblings did, we're polite, we're respectful, but at the end of the day we're young, we like to have fun. But now, more so than ever, the youth has been vilified to the point where it feels like you can't enjoy being young any more, you just have to sit it out and wait until you get old.”
“The last Bollywood movie I watched was 3 Idiots that featured Aamir Khan in it. It was impressive!”

Source : "Brad Pitt: 3 Idiots was Impressive!". Interview with Janhvi Patel, www.idiva.com. September 24, 2012.
“I fight cynicism. It`s too easy. It`s really boring. It`s much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren`t as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented.”
“Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.”

Source : Ann Hood (2009). “Comfort: A Journey Through Grief”, p.53, W. W. Norton & Company

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