"Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Wise Quotes

“Although I have lived through much darkness, I have seen enough evidence to be unshakably convinced that no difficulty, no fear is so great that it can completely suffocate the hope that springs eternal in the hearts of the young... Do not let that hope die! Stake your lives on it! We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures; we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of his Son.”
“The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.”
“Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies.”
“You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.”
“The density of human population combined with the development of powerful and largely unconstrained technology has given us the problems of the anthropocene and the serious possibility of self-caused extinction.”
“I have always made sure that I put my game ahead of anything else, sometimes even before friends and family.”
“What is learned in high school, or for that matter anywhere at all, depends far less on what is taught than on what one actually experiences in the place.”

Source : Edgar Z. Friedenberg (1965). “Coming of Age in America”
“Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a simple vote.”

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