"The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. All strong interests easily become impersonal, the love of a good job well done. There is a sense of harmony about such an accomplishment, the Peace brought by something worth while. Such personal gratification arises from aim beyond personality."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Strong Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Men Quotes

“I began to study marijuana in 1967... I had not yet learned that there is something very special about illicit drugs. If they don't always make the drug user behave irrationally, they certainly cause many non-users to behave that way.”
“I know. It's shocking to think that the government would try to stick its nose in our ladyparts.”

Source : Megan McCafferty (2011). “Bumped”, p.141, Random House
“in mad people fear goes on constantly, night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.68, Feminist Press at CUNY
“Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.”
“Marriage is an an inherently contradictory state. It involves the fusion of two people into one thing. And it's also love, and it's a lot of work, and it's got glory in its drudgery.”
“It's strange how deserts turn us into believers. I believe in walking in a landscape of mirages, because you learn humility. I believe in living in a land of little water because life is drawn together. And I believe in the gathering of bones as a testament to spirits that have moved on. If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self.”

Source : Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.148, Vintage
“Imagination is the mightiest despot.”

Source : Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.430
“I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!”

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