"When one does look up at the grand trees growing up almost to the sky, one does always have longings to pray."

-- Opal Whiteley

#Growing Up Quotes #Sky Quotes #Tree Quotes

“It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.”
“If you want to judge me, I can handle it.”
“Clipper took a relatively simple problem, encryption between two phones, and turned it into a much more complex problem, encryption between two phones but that can be decrypted by the government under certain conditions and, by making the problem that complicated, that made it very easy for subtle flaws to slip by unnoticed. I think it demonstrated that this problem is not just a tough public policy problem, but it's also a tough technical problem.”
“Usually I think if there is something imperfect in a photograph it makes the picture more real. Photographs that are slick, smooth, and imperfect seem less honest to me.”

Source : John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books
“Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.”
“Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.”
“A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.”
“People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.”

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