"Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins like slender bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day that ever was and he was riding to his death."

-- Cormac McCarthy

#Sadness Quotes #Yellow Quotes #Lovely Quotes

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”
“Hiccup: Thank You For Nothing You Stupid Reptile.”
“I can always tell when a girl comes from a good family because she's what's known as not at all attracted to me.”
“Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.”
“If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.”

Source : Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1892). “Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic”
“I'm not saying running could solve all of the world's problems, but I think it would be a good start.”
“..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and manâ€™s only recourse thereafter was to water and tend it; that propagation was a fiction; consequently, society was a fiction too; that fathers and teachers, by virtue of being fathers and teachers, were guilty of a grievous sin.”
“El Bulli was created by 2,000 people that passed through it. And we didn't know that something big was happening. It was like a game in a way. You didn't really know how it was going to end up, and people who would leave, they would take a piece of it with them, but they would leave another piece behind.”

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