"Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future."

-- Antoine Rivarol

#Life Quotes #Fear Quotes #Past Quotes

“If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work and play that call for no more energy than you can afford to spend on them. Then you must train your mind, eye and hand to the point of working and playing with ease, grace and precision.”
“Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.”
“The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.”
“The Anarchists' uncompromising rejection of the State, the subject of Marxian sneers for its "absolutist" and "Utopian" character, makes much better sense in the present era than the Marxist relativist and historical approach. The pacifists also seem to be more realistic than the Marxist both in their understanding of modern war and also in their attempts to do something about it...”

Source : Dwight Macdonald (194?). “Root is man: progressivism vrs. radicalism”
“There was no smell. Over the years time other than when it rained, the musty odour was present. People were in and out of that house daily for years. And other than when it rained, there was no odour and certainly not like what some of the books said. That's all fantasy. If that odour was there somebody would have noticed it sooner.”
“Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.”
“I AM Here Now As This”
“An emotion that lives with me is a sense of what might have been had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.”

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