"And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls."

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Source : Cy Twombly, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (1987). “Cy Twombly: Bilder, Arbeiten auf Papier, Skulpturen”

Cy Twombly

#Fall Quotes #Climbing Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.”
“At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.”
“The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.”
“I don't fall often, but I fall hard. And when you fall hard, it takes a while to get up.”
“The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for me but what is best. Not what is right for me but what is right. Not how much can we take? but How much ought we leave? and how much might we give? Not what is easy but what is worthy. Not what is practical but what is moral.”

Source : Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.407, Henry Holt and Company
“People give out compliments because it's polite.”
“A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.”
“We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.”

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