"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees."

-- John Muir

#Inspirational Life Quotes #Sunshine Quotes #Tree Quotes

“There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.”
“The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.”

Source : FaceBook post by Boris Becker from Oct 22, 2013
“I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.”

Source : Source: www.nobelprize.org
“Snow has turned the world into a cemetery. But the world already was a cemetery and the snow has only come to announce it.”
“Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects the writing to illuminate the human condition, some aspect of our world and our role in it. A reader of genre fiction likes that, too, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of the story.”
“If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am retired.”
“If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.”
“Beyond the terrace, a light breeze stirred the reeds at the edge of the pond. Looking out at this intimate vista, one could see the reeds and a stone lantern and the brightest of the evening's stars floating on the gloaming mirror of the pond. Then the breeze came again to crack the water's surface, and the picture was flooded.”

Source : John Burnham Schwartz (2009). “The Commoner”, p.214, Vintage

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