"The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men."

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Source : Sherwood Anderson (2013). “The Egg and Other Stories”, p.10, Courier Corporation

Sherwood Anderson

#Life Quotes #Men Quotes #Climbing Quotes

“Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him." "I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.”
“Beauty is sincerity.There are so many different ways someone can be beautiful.”
“Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.”
“But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.”
“I have said consistently in my 16-and-a-half years in the parliament, I have always supported the party room's decision and the party room is the ultimate authority on these matters. I don't expect that to change.”

Source : "Liberal Party Further Divided by ETS Negogiations as Tony Abbott Abandons Malcolm Turnbull's Push for Amendments". www.heraldsun.com.au. November 20, 2009.
“Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.”

Source : Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Almost any decision is better than no decision -- just keep moving.”
“However, I'm at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don't have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I'm not immediately recognizable.”

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