"Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to say"

-- Jaron Lanier

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Kind Quotes

“Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.”
“People don't eat in the long run - they eat every day.”
“A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.”

Source : "One Man's Meat". Book by Elwyn Brooks White, 1942.
“My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes - - eyes that had not opened for many, many days - - and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.”
“Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.”
“Spirituality does not lie in meditating on the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.”
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,-a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.â€Ž”

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