"This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship ..."

-- Muriel Barbery

#Self Quotes #Serenity Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.”
“The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.”
“In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.”

Source : William Dean Howells (2015). “THE MARCH FAMILY TRILOGY: Their Wedding Journey, A Hazard of New Fortunes & Their Silver Wedding Journey: From the Author of Christmas Every Day, The Rise of Silas Lapham, A Traveler from Altruria, Venetian Life, The Flight of Pony Baker & Boy Life”, p.842, e-artnow
“Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.”
“Other countries have access to the markets, whereas Greece does not. Therefore, we have to get liquidity through the ECB.”

Source : "Everybody Knows We Are Serious". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. September 14, 2012.
“Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.”

Source : "How We Can Save Over 4 Million Children" by Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.
“I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.”

Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.40, Atlantic Monthly Press
“It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .”

Source : George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.248, The Floating Press

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