"Life in New York is a constant struggle to die of natural causes."

-- Thomas Adcock

#New York Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Causes Quotes

“I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists”
“It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.”
“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”

Source : "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.
“The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from within...could this influence be durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the result; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline; and the most glorious poetry that has been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.”
“Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.”
“Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.”
“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”
“Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.”

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