Change Quote by Kilroy J. Oldster

“All experiences change us and personal writing is one of the most powerful agencies of change. The person who wrote these personal essays no longer exists. This unbosoming script swallowed the shadow of my former persona.” quote by Kilroy J. Oldster — Download Open image

““All experiences change us and personal writing is one of the most powerful agencies of change. The person who wrote these personal essays no longer exists. This unbosoming script swallowed the shadow of my former persona.””

Kilroy J. Oldster

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“Time is inexplicable because it moves – clicks away – at steady increments, while increasing the past and bringing the future into the present. Time has a necessary affinity with both heaven and the earthly reality. ‘Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it is the soul of the world.’ Plato said that time and heaven must…

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