"I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and the repeated passions and conflicts of the human creature, always changing, always the same. Generations passing like grass."

-- Eva Hoffman

#Passion Quotes #Past Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“An overly pragmatic attitude is not productive on the long run.”

Source : Carlo Rovelli (2007). “Quantum Gravity”, p.4, Cambridge University Press
“He could say nothing. He had no right to be there, he had already been profoundly changed, he was no good at small talk, she was half naked, it was dawn and he loved her.”
“It's time for America to get right.”
“The whole east was flecked With flashing streaks and shafts of amethyst, While a light crimson mist Went up before the mounting luminary, And all the strips of cloud began to vary Their hues, and all the zenith seemed to ope As if to show a cope beyond the cope!”
“You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, 'We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.'”
“When you're gay every party is a bad sweater party.”
“The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.”
“The Ideal is the invisible Sun which is always on the meridian of the soul.”

Source : William Batchelder Greene (1871). “The Blazing Star”, p.8

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