"Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned."

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Source : "The Sound of Thunder". Pt. I, Ch. 9. Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1957.

Taylor Caldwell

#Travel Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Joy Quotes

“It hurts to much to be close to you, but continually pushed away.”
“[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.”
“Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.”
“If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.”
“We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.”
“Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!”
“At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to pull any idea together. On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.”
“While holding positive thoughts and emotions is advantageous, positive thinking itself is not "Hallmark Card thinking." It's really an ongoing awareness that all truly is well with the world, with life, and with oneself. It's also a commitment not to mindlessly pass on fears but to bring positive energy, images, ideas, and feelings into the lives of others, to help them attune to the wellness at the heart of the world.”

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