"So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity."

-- Robert Penn Warren

#Time Quotes #Practice Quotes #May Quotes

“When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.”

Source : Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York
“You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.”
“So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.”

Source : "New Zealand's Neil Finn: 'I'm a lifer" By Ayesha Lawrence, www.cnn.com. March 4, 2004.
“I sit cross-legged on the rock The valleys and streams are cold and damp Sitting quietly is beautiful The cliffs are lost in mist and fog I rest happily in this place At dusk the tree shadows are low I look into my mind A white lotus emerges from the dark mud”
“I’ve never been able to understand ‘faith’ myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones — by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether a universe or a smaller one.”
“There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.”

Source : "The Open 2011: Bubba Watson regrets burbling about Parisian landmarks" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2011.
“Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.”
“Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, p.176, eBookIt.com

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