"Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes."

-- Alfred Austin

#Flower Quotes #Simple Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Looking back, I've never had one regret.”
“Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence â€” the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes â€” all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose and by the seriousness of the task at hand.”

Source : Jon Krakauer (2009). “Into the Wild”, p.150, Anchor
“For a few ticks of the clock I am here, uncomprehending, attempting to make some record or memorial of this eternal passage, like a traveler in a strange country through which he is being hurried on a schedule not of his making and for a purpose he does not understand.”
“I think in America we have some really serious issues we're going to confront as a nation.”

Source : Source: www.democracynow.org
“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”
“Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.”
“No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over ... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.”
“I haven't taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin.”

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