"You shouldn't be looking at the bottom of the mountain. Why don't you try looking at the top some time?"

-- Robert Riskin

#Optimism Quotes #Trying Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten at almost any point. I suppose you could say it is like life.”
“Masochism is a valuable job skill.”
“If your not daring to believe God for the impossible, your sleeping through some of the best parts of your Christian life.”
“I think the majority of the Liberian people want peace.”
“The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.”
“We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone. We may think that we love certain people, but we don't know how profoundly we love them.”

Source : "This Week in Fiction: Akhil Sharma". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. January 10, 2014.
“But freedom is the possibility of a total and centered act of the personality, an act in which all the drives and influences which constitute the destiny of man are brought into the centered unity of a decision.”
“The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.”

Source : Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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