“One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.”
Source: The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939Related quotes

“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.”
As quoted in Contemporary Quotations (1954) by James Beasley Simpson

“Always take care of the emotions. They are the ones who shed light on the arduous path of life.”
Original: (it) Abbi sempre cura delle emozioni. Sono loro a far luce sull'arduo percorso della vita.
Source: prevale.net

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“Our life is no Dream, but it may and will perhaps become one.”
Novalis (1829)