"I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations are only to help you along in that work."

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Source : Thomas De Witt Talmage (1887). “Live Coals”

Thomas De Witt Talmage

#Appreciation Quotes #Dancing Quotes #Wish Quotes

“There is something in these moments of crisis that is really extraordinary about humanity and human beings' resilience and the way in which everyone naturally comes together. I think you see the best in people in those moments for better or for worse and you find your best self.”
“I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness of solitude differ, and the latter is never as exhausting as the former.”
“To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.”
“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.”
“Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.”

Source : Alamgir Hashmi (1992). “Sun and moon, and other poems”
“White people scare the crap out of me.”
“I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a painting that consisted of 4,096 colour fields. Initially I was attracted by the typical Pop Art aestheticism of using standard colour-sample cards; I preferred the unartistic, tasteful and secular illustration of the different tones to the paintings of Albers, Bill, Calderara, Lohse, etc.”
“I'm waking up to say I tried, instead of waking up to another TV guide.”

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