"Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on."

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Source : Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Steven Callahan

#Dream Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Be still my tongue, for i know not what to say; My life is lived in darkness and here i will remain.”
“In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.”
“Leadership happens at every level of the organization and no one can shirk from this responsibility.”
“I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Death was not. I lived in a simple drowse:Hands and hair moved through a dream of wakening blossoms.Rain sweetened the cave and the dove still called;The flowers leaned on themselves, the flowers in hollows;And love, love sang toward.”
“I've become more confident in who I am as an artist and as a person. I know what I want and am not afraid to voice it in the studio. Or in life. Take it or leave it!”
“One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.”
“All who wait upon the Lord shall rise higher and higher upon the mighty pinions of strong devotion, and with the unblinking eye of faith, into the regions of heavenly-mindedness, and shall approach nearer and nearer to God, the Sun of our spiritual day.”

Source : John Angell James, Thomas Smith James (1861). “The Christian Life”, p.329

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