"I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth."

-- Ed Zern

#Morning Quotes #Lakes Quotes #Sea Quotes

“I have gained and sustained my optimism as a humble student of our living universe, our living Earth, which clearly shows us the way out of our adolescent crisis into a mature global future. The sooner we create our vision of all we desire, set our intention to implement it together, and put our individual capacities into collective action, the greater our chances of success.”
“Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and free. We never became them. One of the things we discover as we live is that we never become anything different from what we are. We are no less ourselves at forty than we were at four, and because of this we know grownups as Grownups only once in life: during our own childhood. We never meet them in our lives again, and we will miss them always.”
“I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We have moments of clarity, and then we're confused. We have incredibly sensitive periods of being awake, and then we're numb. Being human is a very universal and a very personal practice of learning how to return when we can't get access to what we know.”
“Fear of the Lord is not the beginning of wisdom. It is the beginning of insanity.”
“Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.”
“Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.”
“Iâ€™m one of those very lucky people who absolutely love what they do for a living. There is no career better suited to my eccentricities, strengths, and passions than that of a childrenâ€™s book author.”
“From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.”

Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2015). “The Master of Go”, p.57, Random House

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