"I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me"

-- Laura Hillenbrand

#Aspiration Quotes #Listening To Music Quotes #Yearning Quotes

“I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.”
“To fly up to the sky and watch the earth is beautiful; to fly down to the earth and watch the sky is even more beautiful!”
“Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort from its accumulated reserves and current revenues. Almost all war-making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens who have other uses for their resources.”

Source : Charles Tilly, Arthur L. Stinchcombe (1997). “Roads from Past to Future”, p.149, Rowman & Littlefield
“Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble because just when you think you got all the answers, is the moment when some bitter twist of fate in the universe will remind you that you very much don't.”
“So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.”
“Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.”
“Fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification,”
“One of the ultimate things a human can learn is kindness for their fellow humans”

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