"I thought if I was going to live a life in this land I was accidentally born on, I must people it; I must have a history. . .. I'm looking for these people inside me, wherever they may be; that is my form of research."

-- Sebastian Barry

#Land Quotes #People Quotes #Research Quotes

“When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.”
“No child is bad from the beginning, they just imitate their atmosphere.”
“The Power of WHO provides great lessons about how to succeed in business and in life. If you surround yourself with quality people and great friends, the sky's the limit.”
“The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.”

Source : George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books
“By the time you read this, you'll be older than you remember.”
“There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, â€œNothing, I just helped him cry.Â²â€ â€œEven after all this time the sun never says to the earth â€œYou owe meâ€ Look what happens with a love like that, It lights the whole sky..â€”
“I had to dare a little bit. Who am I kidding-I had to dare a lot. Dont wear one ring, wear five or six. People ask how I can play with all those rings, and I reply, Very well, thank you.”
“In looking around me seeking for miserable resources against the heaviness of time, I open a book and I say to myself, as the cat to the fox: I have only one good turn, but I need no other.”

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