“I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.” ThinkingMomentsWorryToo MuchAgingVanityGet BetterPanic Author:Jennifer Garner
“There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.” KnowsWorldMayWarSoulMomentsTurnsGirlReadingFatherForgetDestinyGrowingGenerationsMankindMovementSonTerribleHusbandArmyNewspapersVanityCivil WarGreyLimbsNeglectedCorpsesClashEarthquakesUrgencyShatteredBloomingAloofInvadingBandages Book:Daniel Deronda Source: Daniel Deronda
“What demon is our god? What name subsumes That act external to our sleeping selves? Not pleasure - it is much too broad and narrow, - Not sex, not for the moment love, but pride, And not in prowess, but pride undefined, Autonomous in its unthought demands, A bit of vanity, but mostly pride.” SelfMomentsNamesSexBitsSleepPleasurePrideDemandVanityDemonBroadsAutonomousProwessUndefined Author:J. V. Cunningham
“Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.” GivingKindMomentsPleasureAcceptingWillingRewardsVanitySufficientBenevolentKind WordsIdlersApproving Book:Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country