"Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life."

--

Source : 'Youth' (1910) (on Rupert Brooke)

Frances Cornford

#Long Quotes #Planning Quotes #Unprepared Quotes

“It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.”
“I let go of all expectations. People, places and things are free to be themselves, and I am free to be me.”
“Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.”
“The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be pure except after removing all the base metals in it.”
“Do what is absolutely you and nobody else.”
“If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.”
“No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art.”

Source : Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books
“Never run a bluff with a six-gun.”

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