"I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night."

-- Lillian Hellman

#Life Quotes #Night Quotes #Games Quotes

“The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.”

Source : James Martineau (1890). “Endeavors After the Christian Life: Discourses”
“I am always producing work, but there is always a sort of deadline where you have to finish work. I don't do it for a show. In other words, I am not like a fashion designer where I have a, you know - I have to put out the full line or I have to put out the summer line like that.”
“We've had numerous people diagnosed with Alzheimer's who got better; they just come out of it; they are leading normal lives today. And then, of course, what the doctors say is it's not Alzheimer's. You run into that Catch-22 all the time. They say, well, it was probably just a temporary premature dementia, and they write-off the recovery to preserve their ignorance.”
“There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Apr 19, 2011
“If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got a complex strategy. It can't be reduced to a page.' That's nonsense. That's not a complex strategy. It's a complex thought about the strategy.”
“If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.”
“Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.”
“Whoever is willing to enter the magic path should regard it as his sacred duty to practice regular exercises. He ought to be kind, generous and tolerant with his fellow men, but relentless and hard with himself. Only such behavior will be followed by success in magic.”

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