"We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean."

-- Elizabeth Ann Seton

#Ocean Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Moments Quotes

“God is a placebo for your own mortality.”
“The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars.”
“Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.”

Source : James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1859). “The poetical works of James Gates Percival”, p.286
“I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Always there has been an adventure just around the corner--and the world is still full of corners.”

Source : Roy Chapman Andrews (2013). “Under a Lucky Star - A Lifetime of Adventure”, p.248, Read Books Ltd
“Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.”
“To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.”
“And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me seem very sweet and polite.”

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