"Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet."

-- Carl Lewis

#Motivational Quotes #Feet Quotes #Long Quotes

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

Source : Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.570, Wordsworth Editions
“We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.”

Source : Jay Griffiths (2015). “Savage Grace: A Journey in Wildness”, p.53, Counterpoint
“To many men, moderate success is only another aspect of failure.”

Source : Charles Tomlinson (1887). “Essays, Old and New”
“I definitely feel like a native New Yorker. My personality was formed there.”
“The private experience that you perceive forms your world, period. But which world do you inhabit? For if you altered your private sensations of reality, then that world, seemingly the only one, would also change. You do go through transformations of beliefs all the time, and your perception of the world is different. You seem to be, no longer, the person you that you were. You are quite correct â€” you are not the person that you were, and your world has changed, and not just symbolically.”
“There were a number of referendums in '98 that most of the things I voted for passed. That's very satisfying when you feel that most of the country is in step with your views.”
“Lots of people feel more alive when theyre riding a roller-coaster relationship. But while this might be fun for a while, it cant possibly last.”
“If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circustance.”

Source : Theodore Dreiser (2015). “The Genius”, p.859, Booklassic

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