"Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness."

-- John D. Voelker

#Loneliness Quotes #Lakes Quotes #Sea Quotes

“I usually work seven days a week and rarely take vacations, which is both lame and unsustainable. I don't mind the idea of writing seven days a week, I suppose. Getting some work done early in the morning. But ideally I would love to take one day a week off.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme”
“I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.”
“Hopefully, young people will see that you can be young and make the sacrifices to follow your dreams.”

Source : "Tinie Tempah: 'Mum's proud I got to No1 but she still makes me wash up'" by Rachel Corcoran, www.mirror.co.uk. October 8, 2010.
“I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.”
“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre....”
“In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories”

Source : Sol Stein (2014). “How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them”, p.68, St. Martin's Press
“I stand here not because I have fame or money or because I play on TV or hit a World Series home run. That doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because I stand here as a humble person because I know He could have picked someone else. In His Word he says, 'the least of us shall be first.' When I look up, I realize I am blessed and I say thank you Jesus for all you have done for me because without you I would be nothing.”

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