"Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything."

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Source : Giacomo Leopardi (2013). “Zibaldone”, p.288, Macmillan

Giacomo Leopardi

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“Its easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.”
“making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”
“I honestly think people are tired of reading about me.”
“The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the initiative Â– destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. We all need each other. This type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to the maturity of individual and group functioning.”
“The moment you say yes to acting on your desire is the real beginning.”
“A fruit is not afraid of its own weight. It grows into its skin fully. It is whole, each part of its body equally alive.”

Source : Gayle Brandeis (2009). “Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write”, p.180, Zondervan
“And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.”
“If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.”

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