"I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you."

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Louisa May Alcott

#Mean Quotes #Long Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.”

Source : Larry McMurtry (1989). “Some Can Whistle: A Novel”, Simon & Schuster
“I wanted to try to make songs that worked as songs, not just as productions. People wanted me to do a solo acoustic session, they were like "Can you play song on the piano?" and I was like "Not really. It doesn't really work." I wanted to write songs that would work in a variation of instrumentation.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Death is the great wrecking ball that destroys everything. Everything that we have done, everything that we are doing now, and all our plans for the future are completely and irrevocably destroyed when we die. Only teenagers live in that state of temporary insanity when they believe themselves immune from death.”
“The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.”
“Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.19
“Do right always. It will give you satisfaction in life.”
“I have always had the sea as my playground.”

Source : "With Alexander Dale Oen's sudden death, Norway lost a hero" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2012.
“Everything we call a trial, a sorrow or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there, the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Our joys, too, be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts.”

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