"My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place."

--

Elizabeth Berg

#Heart Quotes #Mind Quotes #Kites Quotes

“Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them.”
“Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces "the finger of God" in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best.”

Source : Joseph McCabe (1929). “The Story of Religious Controversy”
“my face I don't mind it, Because I'm behind it-- 'Tis the folks in the front that I jar.”

Source : Limeratomy "The Face" l. 1 (1917)
“People complain that life is short,for me it seems very long.”
“A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.”
“Essentialism is not about how to get more things done, it's about how to the get the right things done. It doesn't mean just doing less for the sake of less either. It is about making the wisest possible investment of your time and energy in order to operate at our highest point of contribution by doing only what is essential.”
“If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.”
“If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.”

Source : Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.169, Courier Corporation

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