"Sometimes, I feel like one who is..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela
Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
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“A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.”
“I love playing and chatting with children...feed ing and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life.”
“Therefore, we must not look at the African people, even before they met whites, as if they had something unique, which was not to be found in other societies.”
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“It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.”
“It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.”
“Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”
More on Regret
“I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815”
“If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.”
“I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.”