"The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is."

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Source : Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.407, Simon and Schuster

Alex Witchel

#Fall Quotes #Moving Forward Quotes #Worry Quotes

“The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.”
“But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.”
“I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.”
“An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.”
“I've always wanted to sail to the South Seas, but I can't afford it. What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of security. And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine â€” and before we know it our lives are gone.”

Source : Sterling Hayden (2015). “Wanderer”, p.42, Pickle Partners Publishing
“I defy my honored opponents to give me the name of a single man imprisoned in the United States, Great Britain, or West Germany for being an atheist. But in former communist countries, millions of our Christian brothers and sisters in faith have passed through jails or been killed. Who has fought for freedom and obtained it - atheists or Christians?”
“The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.”
“There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point which he is never told. It is not only so of cooking: it is so of splicing a rope; of painting a surface of wood; of mixing mortar; of almost anything you like to name among the immemorial human arts.”

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