"The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness."

-- Stephen Spender

#Memories Quotes #Creativity Quotes #Self Quotes

“I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors.”

Source : "Jay Gould : A Character Sketch" by William T. Stead, February 1893.
“It's healthy to periodically self examine your life, your goals, your relationships, and ask yourself honestly, am I happy? Am I on the right track?”

Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.
“Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.”
“Only very coarse persons wanted wars.”
“Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.”
“Most kids dont get to go their parents wedding.”
“Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they then devour the living flesh, rot the bones, and penetrate to the very marrow. Philosophy at first refutes errors. But if it is not stopped at this point, it goes on to attack truths. And when it is left on its own, it goes so far that it no longer knows where it is and can find no stopping place.”
“Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.”

Source : Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

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