"A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure."

“There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation.”

Source : Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “The Art of Power”, p.19, Harper Collins

“Enthusiasm glows, radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone's interest.”

“There is no more dramatic proof of the death of the Left than the passage of its central vision ­ global democratic revolution ­ into the hands of those who call themselves conservatives.”

Source : "The End Of The Left's History". www.cbsnews.com. December 2, 2004.

“I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.”

“A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.”

“God does not want to control you, or stifle you, or manipulate you, or force you to do anything you don't want to do. Quite the opposite. God will let you do whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it, with whomever you want to do it, and as often as you want to do it. When was the last time God stopped you from doing anything?”

“We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Mar 14, 2011

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”

Source : Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA