"If we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us."

-- Peter Matthiessen

#Forever Quotes #Live Forever Quotes

“In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.”
“Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.”
“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.”
“So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”
“God wants to purify our minds until we can bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things. God dwells in you, but you cannot have this divine power until you live and walk in the Holy Ghost, until the power of the new life is greater than the old life.”
“Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.”
“You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.”
“My favorite process is writing, from day one. The songs I have written throughout the years were a real great opportunity for me to communicate, because I think tha'ts my prime objective on this planet.”

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