"Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden."

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Source : Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

Jean Anouilh

#Life Quotes #Children Quotes #Garden Quotes

“Taylor [Swift] always inspires me, not just with music -- she just inspires me as a person. She's really, really sweet and just reflects beauty inside and out. If I'm going through anything Taylor can pull me out of it in five seconds.”
“We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.”

Source : "Daring to Be Ourselves: Influential Women Share Insights on Courage, Happiness, and Finding Your Own Voice". Book by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.
“There are basically two kinds of tax, the kind the masses can see, and the kind they can't. The inflation tax is of the second kind.”
“Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions.”
“I'm not really worried about my numbers now as a 36-year-old. I'm not trying to be the first, experimental case of a 36-year-older trying to maintain his numbers, especially when I'm on a team like this. Can I do the same stuff I could do when I was Amare's age? Of course not. I'm not going to even try. However, I feel that I'm the baddest 36-year-old out there.”
“Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You don't have much faith in people, do you?' asked David. 'I don't have much faith in anything,' Roland replied. 'Not even in myself.”
“Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.”

Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.12, Univ of California Press

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