#rin

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. ↗

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. ↗

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of curse it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#experience #grief #mourning #others #personal-experience

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. ↗

— Paul Auster

#dead #end #night #number #other

My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#carefully #driving #force #gotten #had

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have such a hard time just getting things right; arguing is for string players. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#arguing #because #generally #getting #hard

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#break up #bring #cars #home #kill

I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#effective #had #i #i wish #more

None of us is certain about the outcome of the Arab Spring. ↗