"For relationships, too, must be like islands. One must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded and interrupted by the sea, continuously visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the serenity of the winged life, of ebb and flow, of intermittency."

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#Life Quotes #Islands Quotes #Sea Quotes

“What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.”
“Every time you go out there to do something, you wonder if you can do it. There's no assured success. There's no secret recipe for success. Every time you go out there, you go out there with the possibility of great failure.”
“There is nothing to fear from truth....Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.”
“She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away.”

Source : Damon Runyon (1981). “The bloodhounds of Broadway and other stories”, William Morrow & Company
“To make sense of this view (design as opposed to accident), one must accept the idea of transcendence: that the Designer exists in a totally different order of reality or being, not restrained within the bounds of the Universe itself.”
“Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.”

Source : "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.
“[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.”
“All new ideas pass through three stages: first they are dismissed as nonsense, then they are rejected as being against religion and finally they are acknowledged as the truth, with the proviso from the initial opponents that they knew it all along.”

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