"So thoughtlessly we sling on our destinies."

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Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.28, Atlantic Monthly Press

Leif Enger

#Destiny Quotes #Our Destiny Quotes

“I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.”
“Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay.”
“I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my fancy. Every rotation powers my traveling machine toward yet another date with destiny. The breeze clears my senses. The wind blows away my troubles. The sun shines upon my future. Spinning spokes create flashing metal upon an endless path-cycling feels like an infinite spiritual rush. It cleanses my mind. All my troubles fade into joy.”
“The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.”

Source : Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.126, Open Road Media
“The development and/or revelation of a CEO's potential for great leadership requires slow escalations of experiences that involve pressure, each time given the tools to succeed. Successful experience breeds confidence, as well as an eventual restlessness to try more.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“I can never see fashion models, lean angular cheeks, strutting hips and blooming hair, without thinking of the skulls at the catacombs in Lima, Peru.”
“May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?”
“Know that you are worth so much more than the value you place on your body. It's not the only thing that defines you.”

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