"As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by."

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Source : Natalia Ginzburg (2016). “The Little Virtues”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Natalia Ginzburg

#Dream Quotes #Regret Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.”
“There is no path to peace; peace is the path.”
“Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.”

Source : "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed". Book by Jared Diamond, 2005.
“I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.”
“I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and the fact that I wrote these quirky songs that were not typical structure, not typical sound - you know, really original stuff.”
“Wait a second Why should you care what they think of you? When you're all alone, by yourself, do you like you? Do you like you? You don't have to try so hard, you don't have to give it all away, you just have to get up You don't have to change a single thing.”

Source : Song: Try, 2014
“Personally, I think that my father's ministry does have some effect on one. I perhaps thought I wasn't listening that well, but I could almost recite his sermons. He had the old-fashioned preaching style of chanting. He would explain a point and then there would be this pitch to excite the audience because people would eventually shout and respond to what he was saying.”

Source : Source: www.aaa.si.edu
“Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.”

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