"Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story."

-- Lionel Shriver

#Age Quotes #Stories Quotes #Dull Quotes

“The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change oneâ€™s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with strength. The polished sentences had arrived, it seemed, like so many other things, at just the right time. How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?”

Source : "Light Years". Book by James Salter, 2011.
“As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.”
“He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.”
“The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.”
“Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together.”

Source : Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.290, Feminist Press at CUNY
“Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love”

Source : Prem Prakash (1998). “The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion: A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras”, p.7, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
“The only thing I have in common with George Best is that we came from the same place, play for the same club and were discovered by the same man”
“Drinking Garri doesnt mean you're poor, but allowing the garri to swell-up before drinking is Poverty”

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