"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

-- Willa Cather

#Writing Quotes #Age Quotes #Fifteen Quotes

“Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.”
“A fool and his money are soon parted. It takes creative tax laws for the rest.”
“When we try to focus our thought upon One who is pure uncreated being we may see nothing at all, for He dwelleth in light that no man can approach unto. Only by faith and love are we able to glimpse Him as He passes by our shelter in the cleft of the rock.”
“Summer treads on heels of spring.”
“The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.”
“Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.”
“Money is everywhere, but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.”
“I have seen that community and a close relationship with the land can enrich human life beyond all comparison with material wealth or technological sophistication. I have learned that another way is possible.”

Source : Helena Norberg-Hodge (2017). “Ancient Futures, 3rd Edition”, p.172, Chelsea Green Publishing

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