"I said, â€˜Thereâ€™s one idea Iâ€™ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. Itâ€™s Woodrow Wilson.â€™"

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A. Scott Berg

#Years Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Pockets Quotes

“Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds.”
“I wonder whats wrong with me. Sometimes I just keep wanting to go deeper and deeper into the world of self destruction. Like as if I want to see myself fail completely and disappear.”
“Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.”
“My wife and I were poor when I started but we struggled along until things happened for me in my thirties. I knew I was doing what I loved even if I wasn't getting paid for it, so I think I'd still be doing it.”
“You have to learn how to be in scary areas, make those comfortable, then go to the next scary area and make it comfortable.”
“A light heart lives long.”
“God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.”
“There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.”

Source : Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.157, Taylor & Francis

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