"Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be."

-- Dan Gutman

#Thinking Quotes #Energy Quotes #Want Quotes

“All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”

Source : John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.191
“Thoughts of being a pirate and stealing her away to my ship race across my mind. Although Iâ€™m not a pirate, and sheâ€™s not my captured princess.”
“I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.”
“Don't worry about the situation of the world. You must be very happy, very very happy! Only through happiness and waves of bliss you will be able to help your country and the entire world in an automatic manner. You will remain ever invincible when you don't allow anything to obscure your happiness.”
“With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.”
“Things don't just happen, they have reasons. And the reasons have reasons. And the reasons for the reasons have reasons. And then the things that happen make other things happen, so they become reasons themselves. Nothing moves forward in a straight line, nothing is straightforward.”

Source : "Martyn Pig".
“Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.”
“I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.”

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