"I'm a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love."

-- Meg Rosoff

#Anchors Quotes #Years Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.”
“I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”
“The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.”

Source : Margaret Walker (2013). “This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems”, p.74, University of Georgia Press
“Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives.”
“Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.”
“I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.”
“If you really want to get in shape, you can't have those days where you feel weak.”
“For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.”

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