"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."

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Source : "Flicker to Flame: Living with Purpose, Meaning, and Happiness". Book by Jeffrey Thompson Parker, October 2006.

Pericles

#Peace Quotes #Stones Quotes #Woven Quotes

“Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.”

Source : Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.309, Delphi Classics
“Everybody knows we're big liberals and I was a very outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, and I still am. It's impossible for us to separate the songs we're writing from what's going on in the world.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.”
“I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.”
“In terms of the spaceship Earth, the wrong crew is in command, and itâ€™s time for a mutiny.”
“If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such spiritual exaltation, such spectacular religious ritual, or in the immense volume of song and poetry and literature and dance that humans have produced.”
“I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.”
“Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.”

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