Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, in Charles Dickens (1906)
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Very good thought and one I hope will get me through this funk I seem to be into today.
Have a wonderful weekend.
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This is a beautiful quote! And I am glad that my Croatia snaps took you back to Turkey! Thank you for your kind comment.
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Or, in my case, sometimes in the senior age.
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