"We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over."

-- Anne Carson

#Thinking Quotes #Youth Quotes #Affair Quotes

“There is a still small voice telling us what is right, and if we listen to that still small voice we shall grow and increase in strength and power, in testimony and in ability not only to live the gospel but to inspire others to do so.”

Source : "The Path of Safety", Improvement Era, December, 1937.
“We all possess more power and greater possibilities than we realize, and visualizing is one of the greatest of these powers.”

Source : Genevieve Behrend (2013). “Your Invisible Power: Order of Visualization and How to Attract to Yourself the Things You Desire (New Thought Edition - Secret Library)”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc
“No one likes my books except the public.”
“Boys' connections—to other people and to their selves—can enable them to think and act of their own volition and to resist overly restrictive norms and expectation when they are faced with pressures to conform.”
“In prison, illusions can offer comfort.”
“Our collective freedom... depends on our ability to defend the rights of others.”

Source : Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next?: A Memoir Toward World Peace”
“Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.”
“Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom."”

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