"There are tones of voices that mean more than words."

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Source : Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”

Robert Frost

#Mean Quotes #Voice Quotes #Tone Quotes

“By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.”
“His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered, and measured; and the vocation to which he considered himself called was, to weigh, number and measure as many of those objects as his allotted three-score years and ten would permit. This conviction biased all his doings, alike his great scientific enterprises, and the petty details of his daily life.”

Source : George Wilson (1851). “The life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish: including abstracts of his more important scientific papers, and a critical inquiry into the claims of all the alleged discoverers of the composition of water”, p.186
“For missing a 10 minute swim - I think it was out of order really.”
“if I love something I do it, and if I don't, I don't. I think that this is the most important choice that any of us can make in life, in art, in history: to do the thing you love. If you love it, it is important. If you love it then while you are doing it, you are a true expression of yourself and your time and your story. You are authentic. If you don't love it you betray not only yourself but also your history, your culture, your position in your society.”
“Unselfish love for all people without exception is the most important point of convergence among all significant spiritualities and religions.”
“Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a childs soul.â€â€¢ â€œPlay is the highest level of child development . . . It gives . . . joy, freedom, contentment, inner and outer rest, peace with the world . . . The plays of childhood are the germinal leaves of all later life.â€â€¢ â€œChildren are like tiny flowers; they are varied and need care, but each is beautiful alone and glorious when seen in the community of peers.”
“We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.”
“I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguousÂ world; it's like ours but different.”

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