"I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. . . . The most difficult thing to let go is my self, that self which, coddled and cozened, becomes smaller as it becomes heavier. I don't understand how and why I come to be only as I lose myself, but I know from long experience that this is so."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

#Letting Go Quotes #Journey Quotes #Light Quotes

“I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.”

Source : "Paul Merton: 'Am I allowed to call myself working-class now?'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2011.
“I don't spend most of my life in front of the media.”
“The FBI released its report on [Hillary] Clinton's emails. It exonerated her almost completely, but a few days later Matt Lauer obliviously spent a full third of his interview with Clinton on the emails anyway. Lauer was widely pilloried for this.”
“Life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.”

Source : Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”
“Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.”
“Excellence, to me, is the state of grace that can descend only when one tunes out all the world's clamor, listens to an inward voice one recognizes as wiser than one's own, and transcribes without fear.”
“This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously.”
“Golf is my real profession. Entertainment is just a sideline. I tell jokes to pay my greens fees.”

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