"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Commitment Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Insperational Quotes

“Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing something else.”
“Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.”
“Now there is living to give instead of to get. As you concentrate on the giving, you discover that just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving - even the most wonderful things like health and happiness and inner peace. There is a feeling of endless energy, it just never runs out, it seems to be as endless as air. You seem to be plugged in to the source of universal energy.”
“In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.”
“He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.”

Source : 'Lettre du Provincial' 21 December 1899, in 'Basic Verities' (1943) p. 46
“The cars themselves are getting smarter and will be increasingly able to assist drivers - to the point where the cars will be completely automated.”
“Focus on your buyers and your buyers problems”
“Katy Perry is the sexiest woman I've ever kissed. It was amazing and very purple - she had purple lipstick on. I don't think there will ever be anything cooler than kissing her until I marry her maybe!”

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