"There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?"

-- Guy Gavriel Kay

#Letting Go Quotes #Falling In Love Quotes #Sadness Quotes

“I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.”
“When you say, 'I canâ€™t do that,' you're expressing yourself incorrectly. You should say, 'I couldnâ€™t do that before.'”
“If politics meanâ€¦the effort to secure through legislative action better conditions of life for the people, greater opportunities for our children and other peopleâ€™s childrenâ€¦then it most assuredly is a womanâ€™s job as much as it is a manâ€™s job.”
“All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?”
“Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.”
“My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor.”
“No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.”
“People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.”

Source : Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”

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