"What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age."

-- Sylvia Plath

#Ideas Quotes #Age Quotes #Feminism Quotes

“I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.”
“The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.”
“I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son's generation and the one coming up after can't work with just paper and pencils any more. I managed to avoid using a computer. I don't even have a cellphone. I feel lucky I managed to live like that.”
“I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided.”
“The rich get richer until the poor get educated.”
“At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul.”

Source : Hugh Black (1911). “Happiness”
“There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.”
“The No. 1 thing the people I have spent time with in my life have done for fun is playing music.”

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