"Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic....So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space..."

-- Edward Abbey

#Running Quotes #Sweet Quotes #Air Quotes

“A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.”

Source : 'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 3 (14 December 1770)
“Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do.”

Source : Neale Donald Walsch (2010). “Friendship with God: An uncommon dialogue”, p.45, Hachette UK
“Thus the radio elements formed strange and cruel families in which each member was created by spontaneous transformation of the mother substance: radium was a "descendant" of uranium, polonium a descendant of radium.”

Source : Ève Curie (1937). “Madame Curie: a biography”
“I think it's such utter hypocrisy that so many people in our society were obviously all watching ***** and yet we treat these people [actors] like they're sub-human. I think it's just disgusting.”
“It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world”
“Executives and studios really like to have control over their product. They panic or they're not secure enough to trust in the powers of really amazing improv people.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.”
“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.”

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