"Live it well and this life can be grand."

-- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#This Life Quotes #Wells Quotes

“In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.”

Source : Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.50, Faber & Faber
“One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.”
“I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle; I want to ride my bicycle; I want to ride my bike; I want to ride my bicycle; I want to ride it where I like...; I don't believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein or Superman; All I wanna do is bicycle, bicycle, bicycle...”
“Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.”
“You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.”
“Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.”
“Don't count on the power of your love or your nagging to create something that wasn't there to begin with.”

Source : FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Nov 16, 2016
“In rural areas of America, there is a growing increase in poverty, homelessness and hunger. You cannot separate these factors from domestic violence ?- a mother with three kids and no financial security is going to stiffen her lip and take the abuse, because not only does she have nowhere else to go, she has three children depending on her for survival.”

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