"In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist."

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Kola Boof

#Army Quotes #People Quotes #London Quotes

“We donâ€™t have to be superstars or win championshipsâ€¦. All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it.”
“If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.”

Source : Michael Neill (2006). “You Can Have What You Want”, p.4, Hay House, Inc
“You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.”

Source : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.336, Random House
“The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.”
“The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations.”

Source : David Richo (2011). “Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy”, p.14, Shambhala Publications
“I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.”
“you must not use wood to put out the fire.”
“In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory”

Source : Ludwig Boltzmann, J.T. Blackmore (1995). “Ludwig Boltzmann His Later Life and Philosophy, 1900–1906: Book One: A Documentary History”, p.142, Springer Science & Business Media

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