"To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort"

-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#Fun Quotes #Serious Quotes #Moments Quotes

“Later our dreams begin catching fire around the edges, they burn like paper, we wake with our hands full of ash.”

Source : Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press
“I'm in love with golf, and I want everybody else to share my love affair.”
“The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to solveyour problems for you or the dreaded ability to make you turn back into a child. When you are no longer hiding from your parents, or clinging to them, and can accept them as fellow human beings, then they may do the same for you.”
“Leaders don't look for recognition from others, leaders look for others to recognize.”
“I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.”
“The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.”
“Education was in danger from the source that always hampered itâ€”religious fanaticism.”
“From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise.”

Source : Tom Perrotta (2006). “Joe College: A Novel”, p.263, Macmillan

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