"I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time."

-- Dan O'Brien

#Baseball Quotes #Winning Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed swiftly and irrevocably beneath the quiet solemnity of the vespered air now vibrant with somber chapel bells.”
“We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. Oneâ€™s inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of oneâ€™s most intimate sources. In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives. The more coherent one becomes within oneself as a creature, the more fully one enters into the communion of all creatures.”

Source : Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.11, Counterpoint
“I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.”
“Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.”
“People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around.”
“Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.”
“To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't really do much for your self-esteem at all.”
“Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.”

Source : James Mill (1821). “The Article Government: Reprinted from the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica”, p.8

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