"Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind."

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Source : Algernon Blackwood (2011). “Four Weird Tales”, p.4, The Floating Press

Algernon Blackwood

#Fall Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“To create reality, focus beyond the outcome, as if it has already happened.”
“For Mum, life was fundamentally hell. You went blind, you got raped, people forgot your birthday, Nixon got elected, your husband fled with a blonde from Beckenham, and then you got old, you couldn't walk and you died.”
“I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.”
“It's probably one of the worst places I've been...”
“Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.”

Source : "Get Over an Ex: Advice for After the Breakup" by Sharon Olds, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2012.
“The most important thing is to be healthy, to drink a lot of water, to fight gravity as much as possible. I am one of the few people who decided I wasn't going to do any invasion with my face.”
“Jesus ... said - long before his followers had established churches and a priesthood - 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.' This Way is the life of the Spirit. To follow it entails no necessity for places (all places are holy ground), no priesthood, since every man becomes a priest unto God ...”

Source : Esme Wynne Tyson (1949). “The Unity of Being”
“I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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