"Joy is the response of a lover receiving what he loves. This is the joy we feel when skiing powderâ€¦ This overflowing gratitude is what produces the absolutely stupid, silly grins that we always flash at one another at the bottom of a powder run. We all agree that we never see these grins anywhere else in life."

-- Dolores LaChapelle

#Running Quotes #Gratitude Quotes #Stupid Quotes

“Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.”
“For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.”
“Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded.”
“Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!”

Source : Joaquin Miller (1923). “The Poetical Works of Joaquin Miller”
“I get really frustrated if people don't smile.”
“A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.”
“I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.”
“I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.”

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