"There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather."

-- Wernher von Braun

#Future Quotes #Flying Quotes #Grandfather Quotes

“I used to think that to become free you had to practice like a samurai warrior, but now I understand that you have to practice like a devoted mother of a newborn child. It takes the same energy but has a completely different quality. It's compassion and presence rather than having to defeat the enemy in battle.”
“After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat.”
“Could we take anxiety to be something that may be of importance, may even be meaningful? And it says something about your history, and could we learn to sort of hold it in a way that's more compassionate, to sort of bring the frightened part of you close and treat it with some dignity, and keep focused instead on what kind of life you want to live connected to what kind of meaning and purpose. That's going to be a quicker, more self-compassionate and more certain journey forward inside things like panic disorder.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Women, then, are only children of a larger growth”
“The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.”
“The Heavenly Spheres make music for us, The Holy Twelve dance with us, All things join in the dance! Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing.”
“Working hard is a skill you have to nurture!”
“I couldn't be happier to not be acting. I miss it, but I don't miss the auditioning or trying to get work.”

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