"They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind."

-- William Greenough Thayer Shedd

#Mind Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“You have to have a military and intelligence approach to removing leadership that results in rapid frequent removals from the battlefield. It's got to be one, two a week, not just one or two every three or four months.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“My heritage will always be an element in my work but as I've written, traveled, and lived more, I've found that the questions and the search - for meaning, for "home," for tribe - consume me more than trying to crank out one identity or one homeland.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature. Just to be in the presence of nature your feelings and 'little seedlings' start to awake. So if we disassociate ourselves from God we cut nature out, too. More and more we turn nature into a commodity, into eco-tourism. But we must integrate it into the way people live every day.”
“The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.”
“If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.”

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.141, Octagon Press Ltd
“Better are the blows of a friend than the flase kisses of an enemy.”
“When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.”

Source : Thomas Young (2003). “Thomas Young's Life and Works: Life of Thomas Young”
“No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield. The Afghan War that was waged by Alexander the Great 2000 years ago is eerily similar to the one that's being fought today. This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to better understand what American and Coalition forces are up against in one of history's most tribal and troubled regions.”

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