"The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you."

-- Angela Thirkell

#Done Quotes #Able Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.”
“When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life.”
“When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan.”
“We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the commons denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul.”

Source : FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Jun 17, 2016
“I grew up with an extremely abusive father. As a mother, I wanted to protect my own children from exposure to violence. When I found out one of my daughters was in an abusive relationship, it broke my heart. Finally, she left him ?- but only after his abuse started spreading to the children.”
“If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with hope. Only bad things happened to you in the past, and only bad things will happen to you in the future.”
“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.”

Source : Wislawa Szymborska, “Possibilities”
“Let us try for once not to be right.”

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