"It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption."

-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Birthday Quotes #People Quotes #Age Quotes

“I asked you what you wanted and you said you didn't want anything. And I told you I wasn't planning on giving you anything; I was planning on giving you something.”
“Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they're going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn't about surviving this, it's about understanding this.”
“Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun.”

Source : Thomas Cogswell Upham (1848). “Religious Maxims, Having a Connection with the Doctrines and Practice of Holiness”, p.8
“I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.”
“In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose that's prospectively boring to strangers.”

Source : "So Much For That". Interview with Bret Anthony Johnston, www.nationalbook.org. 2010.
“The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang their songs.”
“Listen to the extremists - changes come from them.”
“One of the best things about being [joyfully] retired is the freedom to travel when I want. When my son and daughter-in-law asked me to stay at their house for a week to house-sit while they were away on vacation, I had the freedom to do it.”

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