"God must be a smell, one of those delicious dreamy aromas that float into the soul on the warm hopeful days of spring. What is God must be one of those smells that beguile and inebriate the mind, who like a fine drunken horse of water the heart now rides, galloping wild in every direction like a river flooding right through the topsoil of your youth, cutting and eroding a groove that will be your life, a canyon sunk deep into the virgin plains and unsawn forests of your early days."

-- Martin Prechtel

#Horse Quotes #Spring Quotes #Heart Quotes

“Artists are always the Johnny Appleseeds of gentrification.”

Source : Scott Hutchins (2012). “A Working Theory of Love: A Novel”, p.258, Penguin
“It's easier to say, 'Don't care about what anyone thinks,' than it is to actually not care about what anyone thinks. But, honestly, anything you're passionate about, that's what you'll be the best at.”

Source : "Amandla Stenberg On Science, Activism And Her Idols". Interview with Jacqueline Howard, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2015.
“Simplify, simplify, simplify.”
“Everybody's got the mindset that everything should be measurable.”
“Celebration is big for me. From my younger days, when I used to win mementos while playing basketball, I have always believed in sharing my success. It has to be there. It lifts the energy levels of the entire side if you are positive and vocal when a wicket falls.”
“Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.”
“I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.”

Source : Interview with Jessica Grose, www.slate.com. January 19, 2012.
“Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.”

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