"She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Moving Quotes #World Quotes #Youth Quotes

“If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrifying together.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.53, Pan Macmillan
“The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.”
“When a mother comes home with her new baby, she will find her abstractions are all concrete now. 'Freedom' now means being able to take a shower. 'Mobility' means being able to reach the glass of water on the dresser while not breaking the baby's suction on the breast. 'Flexibility' means being able to push the Record function on the VCR without dropping the baby.”
“Venial sin becomes mortal sin when one approves it as an end. . .”
“Make the most of the Indian Hemp Seed and sow it everywhere.”
“I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.”
“It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care”

Source : Errol Flynn, Jeffrey Meyers (2002). “My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn”, p.411, Rowman & Littlefield

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