"I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in a rush of gold to the head, through black and cold, red and cold, brown and warm, giving water the weight and size of myself in order to imagine it, water with my bones, water with my mouth and my understanding. When my body was in some way a wave to swim in, one continuous fin from head to tail, I steered through rapids like a canoe, digging my hands in, keeping just ahead of the river."

-- Alice Oswald

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“Habits are like financial capital â€“ forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.”
“I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.”
“For her, choices were simple; either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in which case she took it, or there was not, and everything else said on the subject was so much meaningless noise.”
“My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.”

Source : Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.345, U of Nebraska Press
“All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.”
“Making fake promises while wearing a fancy dress... that isn't enough. Promises take more work than that.”

Source : Jackson Pearce (2014). “Purity”, p.160, Hachette UK
“Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost.”

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