"The finishing stroke of all sorrow."

-- Juvenal

#Sorrow Quotes #Finishing Quotes #Strokes Quotes

“Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple.”
“The gift of the Holy Ghost...quicken s all the intellectual faculties.”
“So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to life, a transmigrating mass; How the same organs, which to-day compose The poisonous henbane, or the fragrant rose, May with to-morrow's sun new forms compile, Frown in the Hero, in the Beauty smile. Whence drew the enlighten'd Sage the moral plan, That man should ever be the friend of man; Should eye with tenderness all living forms, His brother-emmets, and his sister-worms.”
“All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.”
“If ever I think I've got something so important to say or share with the world that everyone else should sit up and take notice, I just remember who I really am: a pretty ordinary person who just happens to enjoy telling stories.”

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“Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.”
“I hate pretty-looking boys. I'd rather have a guy with a potbelly than one who's in the gym all the time and watches what he eats.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds of stories we tell, and the stories we tell determine the kind of history we make and remake.”

Source : Fergus Finlay, Mary Robinson (1990). “Mary Robinson: A President With a Purpose”, O'Brien Pr

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