"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train."

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Source : 'Since 1939' (1977).

James Russell Lowell

#Tunnels Quotes #Light Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.”

Source : Martha Ostenso (1934). “The White Reef”, New York, Dodd
“It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations.”
“Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.”
“Every day, I wish to make the world more beautiful than I found it.”
“If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).”
“Christ's indwelling presence has freed us from exclusive orientation toward ourselves and opened us up in two directions: toward God, to receive the good things in faith, and toward our neighbor, to pass them on in love.”

Source : Miroslav Volf (2009). “Free of Charge”, p.52, Zondervan
“The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.”
“And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey....”

Source : William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

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