"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Birthday Quotes

“All life on earth emanates from the green of the plant”
“President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes.”
“It isn't how long you stick around but what you put over while you are here.”

Source : George Ade (1920). “Hand-made Fables”
“It's the beautiful minds of this world that win over beautiful faces. They win hearts by winning minds...”
“I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.”
“That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.”

Source : Gish Jen (2014). “Typical American”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“They say that Japan's rigorous building codes and regulations saved thousands of lives over there. Or, as Republicans here saw it, it 'fostered a socialist, anti-business environment that's worse than being dead.'”
“The song is about knowing the end result of every situation you're in, and being able to play it out in your mind and see it before it happens. It's about addiction, really, about knowing how it's all going to end up. In that sense, you're watching a movie of yourself all the time - and then you want out of that movie.”

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