"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."

-- Gertrude Stein

#Inspirational Quotes #Women Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.”
“Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.”
“Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.”
“Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
“Writing a novel, in an unplanned and unpredictable way, makes you engaged; it takes you into yourself, and it becomes something between you and the character for a moment, and then you move back into the structure of the book. I love those moments, because they are completely unbidden.”

Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.
“There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.”

Source : Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin, Paul H. Gebhard (1998). “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female”, p.195, Indiana University Press
“If we are right with the Lord, then, as we face adversity, we can be assured that we will be blessed with faith, strength, wisdom and help from others, not only to overcome, but to learn and to grow from those experiences.”
“I don't expect that the scientific community now embraces and kisses me 'Oh wonderful, great you did!' we have to live with critics, this is normal. Chariots of the Gods was full of speculation, I had 238 question marks. Nobody read the question mark. They always said: Mr. Von Daniken is saying... I did not say, I asked the questions, would that be a posibility? In Chariots of the Gods, I made clear difference between a speculations and facts.”

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