"I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins."

-- Bayard Taylor

#Country Quotes #Eye Quotes #Blue Quotes

“Night thoughts aren't to be trusted.”
“I know now that it is going to be a tough and long road ahead of me”
“If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.”
“I say no to a lot of things that just don't fit my life. I involve my kids in what I'm struggling with so they don't compete with it.”
“Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important, and no one was pressed for an answer. A pause giving time for thought was the truly courteous way of beginning and conducting a conversation. Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and his granting a space of silence to the speech-maker and his own moment of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regard for the rule that, "thought comes before speech."”
“How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged.”
“Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem ...”

Source : "Gravity's Rainbow". Book by Thomas Pynchon, 1973.
“I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”

Source : Brené Brown (2015). “Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.182, Spiegel & Grau

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