"I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?"

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Art Buchwald

#Real Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'...”

Source : Ken Follett (2011). “Ken Follett EPIC HISTORICAL COLLECTION”, p.987, Penguin
“The kind of poetry that interests me is intellectual and moral and political and sexual and sensual - all of that fermenting together. It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.”
“Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!”

Source : Richard Henry Horne, “The Plough, A Landscape In Berkshire”
“So let us raise a cheer ... for the insatiable spirit of Man eager for all new things! What a tale could have been written by that far off man who first saw a tree trunk roll and made a wheel and cart and harnessed in his mare and cracked his whip and drove away to disappear beyond the hill! Or that first man who made a boat and raised a sail and disappeared hull down to unknown shores!”
“It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.”
“What moved me to do what I did was purely my faith. I was motivated by the law that commands me to cut off the head of anyone who insults Allah and his Prophet.”
“A person who does not have stability of mind is an unstable dinghy. In this struggle of life, I will confront all the challenges with truth and strength, and will never waver. Cowardliness is an eveil which I should banish from my life.”

Source : "My Twenty-One Years in the Fiji Islands". Book by Totaram Sanadhya, 1991.
“We need the discipline of magic, of consciousness-change, in order to hear and understand what the earth is saying to us. And listening to the earth, doing the rituals the land asks us for, giving back what we are asked for, will also bring us healing, expanded awareness and intensified life.”

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