"Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for."

-- Laura Lippman

#Want Quotes #Longing Quotes #Moments Quotes

“People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these notes intensify the inner life, which, left unexpressed, slips through your fingers. If only I could find a better kind of journal, humbler, one that would preserve the same thoughts, the same flesh of life, which is worth saving.”
“The brain, Schopenhauer says, is the 'one great tool' that has enabled a creature endowed with neither sharp teeth nor claws to survive in a competitive environment. Moreover simplification of data, and indeed judicious falsification, are adaptive traits.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.”
“You see, being bald and wearing that gray starship uniform, I would have looked like a boy. I wanted to look like a sexy female.”
“Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.”

Source : Mind: An Essay in Human Feeling vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 4 (1967)
“Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.”
“In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [Ï… Sagittarii] and it is still a fascinating, not understood, star. It's the first star in which you could clearly demonstrate an enormous difference in chemical composition from the sun. It had almost no hydrogen. It was made largely of helium, and had much too much nitrogen and neon. It's still a mystery in many ways ... But it was the first star ever analysed that had a different composition, and I started that area of spectroscopy in the late thirties.”

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