"But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary."

-- Thomas Mann

#Children Quotes #Blue Quotes #Secret Love Quotes

“The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed.”
“I'm just tired; I just want the world to be quiet for a bit.”

Source : "The 1975". Interview with Meghan Roos, iamhighvoltage.com. July 27, 2013.
“It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.”
“Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.”
“We usually don't have applications in mind. They come later.”
“By putting pressure on myself to develop a great game, I had less pressure to win. These days, I tell kids that the way I grew up, it wasn't about winning. It was about playing well, about playing the "right" way. That approach helped me enjoy the game and develop mine to its maximum potential.”

Source : Pete Sampras, Peter Bodo (2008). “A Champion's Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis”, p.25, Crown Archetype
“I'm not a tough guy or a good fighter at all. [Boxing] is just a great way to work out that's not boring. It's also good for your mental health. If you have an Irish or Scottish last name you should definitely do it.”

Source : Source: thoughtcatalog.com
“Nobody is sicker than the man who is sick on his day off.”

You may also like:

Albert Camus
Author
Franz Kafka
Writer
Gunter Grass
Novelist
Heinrich Mann
Novelist
Hermann Hesse
Poet
James Joyce
Novelist
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Writer
Klaus Mann
Writer
Stefan Zweig
Novelist