"Though youth be past, and beauty fled, The constant heart its pledge redeems, Like box, that guards the flowerless bed And brighter from the contrast seems."

-- Sarah Josepha Hale

#Heart Quotes #Past Quotes #Youth Quotes

“Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.”

Source : George William Curtis (1894). “Orations and Addresses”
“Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.”
“People will turn to you, follow you, support you only as long as they are confident that you are doing your best.”
“[In] radio, every segment of every hour is a challenge to fill in an interesting way. What I like the most about it is how challenging it is to do it well.”
“I play my own music. Fans come out to hear the songs I've made.”
“Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!”
“Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.”
“If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity.”

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