"Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow To Be old friends?"

-- Horace Walpole

#Growing Up Quotes #Memories Quotes #Blessing Quotes

“International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.”
“Cycling is such a stupid sport. Next time you are in a car travelling at 40mph think about jumping out - naked. That's what it's like when we crash.”

Source : "This much I know: David Millar". Interview with Martin Love, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2011.
“One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.”
“As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.”

Source : Source: www.bookbrowse.com
“It was a mind-blowing experience, it really was-absolutely an awesome thing. . . . As I got to the top I released a bag of M&Ms in the cockpit. It was amazing . . . Looking out that window, seeing the white clouds in the LA Basin, it looked like snow on the ground.”
“Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago.”
“You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.”
“Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.”

Source : Peter Ralston, Laura Ralston (2011). “Zen Body-Being: An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power”, p.19, North Atlantic Books

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