"This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister channel. How many spectacles I've missed: the curtain rising without me, and falling too. How many friends I never had the chance to meet."

-- Anna Akhmatova

#Fall Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Age Quotes

“use every tool in our arsenal to ensure that his nomination is rejected again this year.”
“This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating as an art form than novels.”
“I try to stay pretty level-headed and just do what I have to do.”
“I find too there are few Friendships in the World Marriage-Proof; especially when the Person our Friend marries has not a Soul particularly capable of the Tenderness of that Endearment ... we may generally conclude the Marriage of a Friend to be the Funeral of a Friendship ...”
“Oh! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world.”

Source : David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.50
“The first year of marriage is like wet cement”
“Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.”
“In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.”

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