"I looked in the mirror and stared at my reflection, until I was in the head-clearing trance that comes when you stare at something for a long time."

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Source : Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.147, Penguin

Nick Burd

#Reflection Quotes #Mirrors Quotes #Long Quotes

“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.”
“What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.”
“I only feel better because people aren't being so abusive to me about my weight.”
“Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don't. Life will go on. You try to understand what happens, but maybe today I don't want to know. I just screwed up so maybe I should just put it behind me.”
“It never occurred to me that there was anything odd about writing my own music, and so I used to just jot down little ditties and things like that. And it was only in later years I suppose when I was about nine or so, that I realised there was this thing called composing.”
“But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children.”
“If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and the whole physical economy, the action and reaction which constantly occur between bodily and mental conditions, the reinvigoration which results from such scenes is readily comprehended. . . . The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and thus, through the influence of the mind over the body gives the effect of refreshing rest and reinvigoration to the whole system.”

Source : Frederick Law Olmsted (1993). “Yosemite and the Mariposa grove: a preliminary report, 1865”, Yosemite Assn
“Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.”

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