"When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter."

-- Pearl Cleage

#Lists Quotes #Littles Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Physics changes, but reality stays the same”
“A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy.”
“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”

Source : "Hondas in Space" by Jennifer Reingold, www.fastcompany.com. February 1, 2005.
“I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.”
“I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.”
“In order to form a habit of conversing with GOD continually, and referring all we do to Him, we must at first apply to Him with some diligence: but that after a little care we should find His love inwardly excite us to it without any difficulty.”
“Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I tailor it, I adapt, I try to provide an outline that can, in some way, correlate to the outline that people understand me to have -- that, I suppose, I actually have, at this point. But who I am in my head, very few people really get to see that. Almost none. It's the most precious gift I can give, to bring her out of hiding.”

Source : Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.24, Vintage

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