"The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain."

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Source : Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

Conrad Aiken

#Dream Quotes #Rain Quotes #Answers Quotes

“Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.”
“One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.”
“I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.”

Source : Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”
“Besides P.E., geography was my best class in high school. I was in this gifted class when I was younger, and it was wicked!”
“Silence is Golden; it has divine power and immense energy. Try to pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be. It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, and every word. The unmanifested is present in this world as silence. All you have to do is pay attention to it.”
“In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power.”
“I think how you look is the most important thing in the world. If you look cute, you are cute; if you look smart, you are smart, and if you don't look like anything, you aren't anything.”

Source : Betsy Byars (2004). “Summer of the Swans, The (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.20, Penguin
“Cause your opponent to repent, then let him fall”

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