"Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on."

-- Stephen Nachmanovitch

#Hands Quotes #Boredom Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, And sweet thyme true, Primrose, first born child of Ver, Merry Spring-time's harbinger.”

Source : Francis Beaumont (1887). “The Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher: Selected”
“When the ability to have movement across social class becomes virtually impossible, I think it is the beginning of the end of a country. And because education is so critical to success in this country, if we don't figure out a way to create greater mobility across social class, I do think it will be the beginning of the end.”

Source : "Opening the Door for Low-Income Students to Overcome 'Aristocracy' of Higher Ed". www.pbs.org. September 08, 2013.
“May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.”
“I'm the one who got hit by that car, not you,' I tell him. 'Don't act like you're the victim here. You made choices I didn't ask you to make. I'm not sure anyone asked you to make them.' I'm screaming the words, not caring that the entire world can probably hear me. 'You think I like limping everywhere I go? I don't. I'm the victim! Be honest with me! You didn't care about me enough to trust me. I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.”
“We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.”
“... there's nothing but quarreling with the women; it's my belief they like it better than victuals and drink.”
“Death's but one more to-morrow.”

Source : Silas Weir Mitchell (1914). “The Complete Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”, Library of Alexandria
“Children are always looking at the world as if it was for the first time in their lives. So, we should always look to the world with the eyes of a child. I am not saying be naive, I am saying be innocent in the sense of discovering things.”

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