"I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen."

-- Carson McCullers

#Loneliness Quotes #People Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.”
“There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.”
“I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.”
“The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.”

Source : Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.22, Pan Macmillan
“I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.”
“I just practice. I do six hours of practice everyday. I set to teach myself the trumpet they all said I would never play. I put the organ in my music, like if you listen to my work Day By Day, which got me my second Grammy nomination.”

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“The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.”
“In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.”

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