"Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens."

-- Peter Ackroyd

#Heart Quotes #Echoes Quotes #Dickens Quotes

“You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.”

Source : "Marissa Mayer: Six life lessons from Yahoo CEO" by Rose Hoare, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2012.
“In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we learn politics by examining our own government system, and consider other systems special cases, and the same is true of philosophy.”

Source : "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.
“I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.”
“If I had faced it then, I wouldn't be facing it now, but sooner or later you have to choose between running and facing the thing you thought you could not face.”

Source : Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.122, Penguin
“It's a good idea not to major in minor things.”
“A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.”
“As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.”
“The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems passed beyond recall, are fixed on the printed page in a hundred tongues. They carry to a million eyes what once could reach but a hundred ears.”

Source : Nicholas Murray Butler (1911). “Philosophy”

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