"The knock-out punch is always the one you never see coming."

-- Aimee Mann

“I'm certainly not a saint out there on the golf course. In fact, far from it. Like when you make a three-putt and become upset. I take one step back and remember there are more important things going on in the world than golf.”
“It's definitely the biggest lesson - not to take things personally. But it's also the hardest one.”
“I have an incredible talent for tripping everywhere. And I find that rather boring. Tripping and walking out of my shoes; I do it all the time when I am out at work. I'm a bit clumsy.”
“Writing, painting, singing -- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives.”

Source : Ally Condie (2012). “Reached”, p.275, Penguin
“If you gave Arsene Wenger eleven players and told him to pick his team, this would be it.”
“I know that there is no such thing as death, because our spirit has always been alive and always will be. We are as eternal as God who created us.”

Source : Sylvia Browne, Lindsay Harrison (2000). “The Other Side and Back”, p.20, Penguin
“Realize that the banality around us that passes as "hipness" or "mass culture" is as satisfying as "mass food"-only it comes in much more unappetizing portions.”
“Seeds not planted or tended by choice tend to be weeds, so at least for me, it's very helpful to consciously and periodically choose which seeds I want to water, and to think through what I expect to happen from that watering. Investors can spend a lot of time and energy reacting to the latest bits of news and trying to predict the next surprise, rather than choosing a consistent set of daily actions that they can carry out as things develop, regardless of how they develop.”

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