"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."

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Source : "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

Marshall McLuhan

#Motivational Quotes #Nature Quotes #Past Quotes

“...the devil on my right shoulder must have brutally strangled the angel on my left...”

Source : Gena Showalter (2012). “Playing with Fire”, p.20, Harlequin
“I think I've always had a pretty good time in life. I mean, I've had major trouble, and major brain surgeries, and challenges in relationships - like anyone else - but overall, when I wake up in the morning, and I'm aware, I'm like, "Ok. What's happening today? What's next?"”
“My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.”
“Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesnâ€™t.”
“Sometimes when you are standing still and itâ€™s snowing, you think that you hear music. You canâ€™t tell where itâ€™s coming from either. I wondered if we all really did have a soundtrack, but we just get so used to it that we canâ€™t hear it anymore, the same way that we block out the sound of our own heartbeat.”
“Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.”

Source : "Ausonius: Books I-XVII". Book by Decimus Magnus Ausonius, Paulinus (of Pella.), transl. by Hugh Gerard Evelyn-White, p. 165, 1919.
“One thing I like about writing is that it provides such a wonderful opportunity for confidential chats with readers. In the privacy of writing, and reading, we can discuss topics that are a little touchy, a bit embarrassing, and feel less alone in the process. Feeling consumed by memories from high school. Feeling wimpy. Feeling time-obsessed. Yearning for our fathers. Wishing we were taller, or shorter, or less average. To name just a few.”

Source : Source: writerunboxed.com
“When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.”

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