"Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken."

-- Paul Gauguin

#Done Quotes #World Quotes #Littles Quotes

“It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no God, the other a deformed, unlovely, and a detestable God. He that saith God is not holy speaks much worse that he that saith there is no God at all.”
“But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.”
“I've never been impulsive. It's always been in my nature to consider things carefully and then decide upon the best solution. Except, sometimes the circumstances change. Sometimes things get so complicated and so bad that your nature just doesn't matter anymore.”

Source : Brenna Yovanoff (2012). “Smoulder”, p.45, Simon and Schuster
“The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.”
“Writing a book isnâ€™t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of lifeâ€™s most satisfying achievements.”
“One afternoon a girl walked by in a bikini and my cousin Janet scoffed, â€œLook at the hips on her.â€ I panicked. What about the hips? Were they too big? Too small? What were my hips? I didnâ€™t know hips could be a problem. I thought there was just fat or skinny. This was how I found out that there are an infinite number of things that can be â€œincorrectâ€ on a womanâ€™s body.”
“And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea â€” some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wildâ€”they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.”
“The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.”

Source : Eugene Field (2012). “A Little Book of Western Verse”, p.142, tredition

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