"The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in the dictionary, but it should be. [Of lying in hammocks]"

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Source : Dan Kieran, Tom Hodgkinson (2012). “The Book of Idle Pleasures”, p.194, Random House

Dan Kieran

#Distance Quotes #Lying Quotes #Two Quotes

“Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.”

Source : Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.5019, Delphi Classics
“Spirits...Ghosts...Angels...whichever yo wish to call them - Reader, they do exist. I've seem them all my life, but I've learned to say nothing. And for all you cynics out there, just remember, there is no proof either way. So I choose to believe. In my opinion, it's much the best option.”
“I'd like to be remembered for the way I went about doing my job.”
“I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely.”
“A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.”

Source : Quoted in The Canadian, 22 Dec. 1973
“Jose Ortega y Gasset says, "Tell me the landscape in which you live, and I will tell you who you are." Asserting that character/community is formed, at least in part, by the physical landscape in which he/she resides. And this is underscored by the fact - and not all that long ago - that people and place were, in fact, synonymous: Sapho of Lesbos, for example. Or my middle namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi. Jesus of Nazareth.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.”
“You must hand yourself and all your inward experiences, your temptations, your temperament, your frames and feelings, all over into the care of your God, and leave them there. He made you and therefore He understands you, and knows how to manage you, and you must trust Him to do it.”

Source : Hannah Whitall Smith (2009). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”, p.44, Moody Publishers

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