"To be young and not to know how, is bearable; to be old and not have the strength, is too great a weight to carry. And what's is so painful you can't sense your powers leaving you. It's hard for an old man to ensure such blows!"
Ivan Turgenev
"I’ve lost control of the simple act of being able to breathe. I’m hyperventilating. “I don’t need you to show me how to breathe,” I say. “You don’t?” He looks skeptical. “I think I can handle the simple act of breathing without you."
Adriana Law
"Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals."
Anonymous
"Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!"
Henry David Thoreau
"Martial arts is a life journey. One of the things my teacher taught me a long time ago was that everyone's path to the mastery of a certain system is different. Some people's path is a very direct route, where others might wind back and forth if you are injured or something."
Ryan Potter
"There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you."
Beatrix Potter
"I am a continuation like the rain is the continuation of the cloud."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body."
Paulo Coelho
"You'd be amazed to discover all the tangible things that can come out of dreams.' 'Like drool?"
Catherine Lowell
"So it's off with the shellsuit and on with the Armanis,Bring out the champagne and the caviar sarnies."
Roger McGough
"All day we've witnessed each other's crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die?"
Ian McEwan
"I always wondered if they’d change you."
Anonymous
"Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?"
Mitch Albom
"The world is full of countries that have only come into existence in the last couple of hundred years, or even in the last few decades, while changes to borders are happening every day."
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