"When you're 21 you think, "Old people sound like this. Old people think like this." I don't think my ideas about aging and about eternal life changed that much, but it became more poignant to me as I did get older and I could better imagine, as you sort of inch closer to death every day, why legacy, more than aging, becomes important to people."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Hanya Yanagihara

#Life Changing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I sometimes joke that when I die, my tombstone will say, 'Here lies the guy who hired Jonathan Ive,'”

Source : "An Oral History Of Apple Design: 1992" by Max Chafkin, www.fastcodesign.com. September 03, 2013.
“Life is the wave's deep whisper on the shore Of a great sea beyond.”

Source : HENRY ABBEY (1872). “BALLADS OF GOOD DEEDS”, p.12
“Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space.”
“You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.”

Source : "Satires".
“Every season I am inspired by women.”
“We are stronger together.' Dar looked into Kale's eyes...He turned to Lee Ark and nodded pointedly at the hole through which Kale stared. 'It seems to me that we have a problem in this togetherness thing.”
“I discovered later, and I'm still discovering right up to this moment, that is it only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. By this-worldliness I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures. In so doing we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God, taking seriously, not our own sufferings, but those of God in the world. That, I think, is faith.”
“The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.”

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