"It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel."

-- Loudon Wainwright III

#Fun Quotes #Water Quotes #Ponds Quotes

“I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that. I was raised in Connecticut. And I honestly wasn't aware that my dad was a celebrity until I moved to Los Angeles a year ago.”
“Shoot what you see, not what you think.”
“Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life.”
“Philosophy is a state of fermentation a process without final outcome.”
“Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.”

Source : Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.67, Penguin
“I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'”
“There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.”
“When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it.”

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