"As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time."

-- Bruce Boxleitner

#Boys Quotes #Needs Quotes #Good Times Quotes

“There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross.”

Source : Jane Kenyon, Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1999). “A hundred white daffodils: essays, the Akhmatova translations, newspaper columns, notes, interviews, and one poem”, Graywolf Pr
“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
“I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society.”

Source : "Trust between the police and the black community is still broken" by Linton Kwesi Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2012.
“If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.”
“And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.”
“I could feel myself changing physically. It was like something dropped out of the sky. Seeing her on the fire escape had given me a certain feeling, and then when I saw the photograph of her, it gave me a similar feeling. And I thought that was an incredibly powerful thing - that a photograph could give you a feeling that was similar to a feeling you had in the physical world. Nobody could've told me that. I knew what I was going to do for the rest of my life.”
“Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.”
“Look up . . . and see them. The teaching stars, beyond worship and commonplace tongues.”

Source : Dorothy Dunnett (1999). “The Game Of Kings: The Lymond Chronicles Book One”, p.194, Penguin UK

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