"But it's only after you've played it on the road 20 or 30 times that it becomes really finished and polished...and you realize what it means, and you get the phrasing right."

-- James Taylor

#Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.”
“Sometimes when things get hard, we tend to set our sights on what's hard, that difficult thing that keeps us upset, and we turn our back on our strengths.”
“Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.”

Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.38
“Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it's never as bad as the insanity you've created in your head.”
“When we live moment to moment, we place ourselves at the center of life, where infinite wisdom abides, rather than on the periphery, where things are forever changing and we are susceptible to the vagaries of the world. It is in our awareness each moment of our oneness with God that our inner peace and greatest strength lie.”
“It's a lot easier having a girlfriend in a band than if you were going out with someone that lived in London.”
“Why did the generals who have been so ready to term me a complaisant and incompetent yes-man fail to secure my removal? Was that all that difficult? No, that wasn't it; the truth was that nobody would have been ready to replace me, because each one knew that he would end up just as much a wreck as I.”

Source : "The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel". Book by Walter Gorlitz, p. 52, 1966.
“A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.”

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