"When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now."

-- Edmund White

#Years Quotes #Nostalgia Quotes #Young Quotes

“Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.”
“I think that happiness is a very strange thing. And we really feel that we have a right to this happiness. But I feel like it's constantly fluctuating, and that you can make yourself happy. I think it's an outlook. Having a positive attitude probably sounds like a corny thing to say, but a positive attitude really helps, and respecting your job really helps, and having the support of your family and friends really helps.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents.”
“I was interested in working on a show that was driven by women.”
“I am convinced that these ojects do exist and that they are not manufactured by any nations on earth”
“If you want great tranquility/ It's hard work and a long walk”

Source : Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.34, Macmillan
“The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.”

Source : Jeffrey Sachs (2011). “The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime”, p.388, Penguin UK
“When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.”

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