"Boredom reigns on all levels. The rain is a welcome change. I have seen the pond swell and the creek surge. I press my palm against the glass, imagining the drops on my skin, imagining where they started out, where they will go, feeling them like a river, rushing, combining, becoming something greater than how they started out."

-- Mary E. Pearson

#Rain Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Rushing Quotes

“I always wanted to be a basketball player until I discovered Pizza Pockets.”
“The most important part of a player's body is above his shoulders.”
“I felt a huge drive to make clothes that everybody could have because I felt ostracized by that world of beauty and fashion. I never thought I would have a part in it. Never in a million years.”

Source : "J. Crew's famous creative director is leaving the brand after 26 years" by Mary Hanbury, www.businessinsider.com. April 3, 2017.
“I leave my parents here behind And all my friends to love resigned 'Tis grief to go, but death to stay Farewell -- I'm gone with love away.”

Source : George Moses Horton (1973). “The Hope of Liberty: Containing a Number of Poetical Pieces”
“Anything I do, I want to do it well.”
“I know I can act and it doesn't matter where you come from.”
“The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.”

Source : Fred Alan Wolf (1999). “The Spiritual Universe: One Physicists Vision of Spirit, Soul, Matter, and Self”, p.26, Red Wheel/Weiser
“As a wise man once said, 'If not us, then who; if not now, then when?'”

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