"What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?"

-- Helene Hanff

#Years Quotes #Age Quotes #Nerves Quotes

“I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.”

Source : Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.14, Counterpoint Press
“The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.”
“O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.”
“If a body can no longer be accentuated, it should be abstracted.”
“Proposition IX. Radiant light consists in Undulations of the Luminiferous Ether.”

Source : "On the Theory of Light and Colors," Philosophical Transactions (1802)
“Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The barometer for judging the character of people in regard to human rights is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian.”
“The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.”

Source : c.1460 'Robene and Makeyne', l.91-2.

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