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| | #8811 | | Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind; it is a temper of
the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a predominance
of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over love of ease.
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow
old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up
enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear, and despair
-- these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit
back to dust.
Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart the love
of wonder, the sweet amazement at the stars and the starlike things and
thoughts, the undaunted challenge of events, the unfailing childlike appetite
for what next, and the joy and the game of life.
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your
self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your
despair.
So long as your heart receives messages of beauty, cheer, courage,
grandeur and power from the earth, from man, and from the Infinite, so long
you are young.
-- Samuel Ullman
| | | #8812 | | If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save
you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not
bring forth will destroy you.
-- Jesus, "Gnostic Gospels" (Elaine Pagel)
| | | #8813 | | I am myself plus my circumstance, and if I do not save it, I cannot
save myself.
-- Jos'e Ortega Y Gasset
| | | #8814 | | If a man slept by day, he had little time to work. That was a
satisfying notion to Escargot.
-- "The Stone Giant", James P. Blaylock
| | | #8815 | | He liked fishing a little too much, and he believed that work was
something a man did when he had to. He had always been able to get
along well enough without it, especially for the last couple of
years.
-- "The Stone Giant", James P. Blaylock
| | | #8816 | | Would a giant, profit-oriented cartel lie to you?
-- Top Ten List, Late Night with David Letterman
| | | #8817 | | Some days you wake and immediately start worrying. Nothing in
particular is wrong, it's just the suspicion that forces are aligning
quietly and there will be trouble.
-- "Survival Series", Jenny Holzer
| | | #8818 | | When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but
only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered
glass and splintered wood, like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat
crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard
powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything
like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to
someone else.
-- Margaret Atwood, "Alias Grace"
| | | #8819 | | I am examining you on your fool ideas that no intelligent Christian
on earth believes.
-- Clarence Darrow, to William Jennings Bryan
| | | #8820 | | "Go on, girl! You'll never get a better chance to buy Jif at this
price. *Carpe diem*, babe!"
-- "The Naked Consumer", Erik Larson
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