"Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Clothes Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Environmental Quotes

“But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.”
“You'll never be alone if youâ€™ve got a book.”
“I grew up an Everton fan, my whole family are Everton fans and I grew up hating Liverpool. And that hasn't changed.”
“Preacher's kids are often the ones that are least informed by the work that their parents are doing because it has something to do with the proximity and the intimacy as opposed to the saints and the congregation.”

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“Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of folly to waste one's life in vain efforts to make a binary compound of two diverse elements. What would we think of the chemist who should sit twenty years trying to mix oil and water, and insist upon it that his happiness depended upon the result of the experiment?”
“I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.”
“Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.”
“I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it.After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.”

Source : Louis Sachar (2011). “Holes”, p.57, Yearling

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