"There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings."

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Love Quotes #Life Quotes #Wings Quotes

“I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.”

Source : George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet
“As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother.”
“I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo.”

Source : Lucia Perillo (2016). “Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones: Selected and New Poems”, p.108, Copper Canyon Press
“I think there absolutely are so many lessons that can be learned from sports and so many different positive things that don't necessarily get the spotlight and the attention.”

Source : "Before Being An NBA Superstar, LeBron Was Just 'Bron'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 14, 2009.
“As a Magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards is pretty simple: It's practice, it's training and it's experimenting while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. And that's what magic is to me.”

Source : "How I held my breath for 17 minutes". TED Talk, www.ted.com. October 2009.
“I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.”
“It’s right to say that people fall in love. We don’t glide, slip, or stumble into it. Instead we tumble head first from the moment we decide to step off the edge of a cliff with someone and see whether we’ll fly together. Love might be irrational, but we make the choice to risk everything.”

Source : Martin Pistorius (2011). “Ghost Boy”, p.241, Simon and Schuster
“You can't be one of the best freesurfers and a world champion.”

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