"Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow"

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Source : Alin Austin, Douglas Pagels (1993). “100 Things to Always Remember-- and One Thing to Never Forget”, Blue Mountain Arts

Douglas Pagels

#Stress Quotes #Color Quotes #Rainbow Quotes

“I am passionate about many things but conserving our planet and its species is a high priority of mine.”
“Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be.”
“I donâ€™t like the gringos at all. They are very boring and all have faces like unbaked rolls.”
“Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.”
“You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.”

Source : William Dean Howells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics
“I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!”
“No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.”
“Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.”

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