"She had realized there are only fragments, that 'memories' always consist of fragments the mind puts together into a pattern, adapts a picture staked out early without the need for a conenction with anything that really happened. A great deal is misunderstood by small children, then stored as images that attract similar images, confirming and reinforcing."

-- Marianne Fredriksson

#Memories Quotes #Children Quotes #Misunderstood Quotes

“Work is the best thing to make us love life.”
“Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.”

Source : Matthew Pearl (2015). “The Last Bookaneer: A Novel”, p.22, Penguin
“The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.”
“By staying active & learning to control negative emotions and thoughts, you can live out the rest of your life on a good note.”
“If for one whole day, quietly and determinedly, we were to give ourselves up to the ownership of Jesus and to obeying his orders, we should be amazed at its close to realize all he had packed into that one day.”
“For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.”
“I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.”

Source : Izaak Walton (1833). “The Complete Angler ; Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation; Being a Discourse on Rivers, Ponds, Fish and Fishing. With Lives and Notes”, p.33
“We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that weâ€™re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isnâ€™t all totally pointless.”

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