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Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled.
Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled.
Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to read more
Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
When you live with another person for 50 years, all of your memories are invested in that person, like a read more
When you live with another person for 50 years, all of your memories are invested in that person, like a bank account of shared memories. It’s not that you refer to them constantly. In fact, for people who do not live in the past, you almost never say, Do you remember that night we...? But you don’t have to. That is the best of all. You know that the other person does remember. Thus, the past is part of the present as long as the other person lives. It is better than any scrapbook, because you are both living scrapbooks.
For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.
For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can read more
As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
I would be willing to bet that if one day a woman walked barefoot to the moon and back and read more
I would be willing to bet that if one day a woman walked barefoot to the moon and back and a man cleaned out his desk, when the two of them sat down to dinner that night he would say, ‘Boy was that desk a mess.’
True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
