"If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend itâ€™s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home."

-- Vera Nazarian

#Inspirational Quotes #Home Quotes #Blow Quotes

“And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.”
“If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and wondered intelligently at everything about it and the other things who lived here with us on it, and that we celebrated the beauty of it in music and art, architecture, literature, and dance, and that there were times when we approached something godlike in our abilities and aspirations. We emerged out of depthless mystery, and back into mystery we returned,and in the end the mystery is all there is.”
“I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.”
“Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.”
“Artists don't create society, they reflect it”

Source : Ben Elton (2013). “Elton Plays: 1: Gasping; Silly Cow; Popcorn”, p.139, A&C Black
“I love reading another readerâ€™s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.”
“It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit.”

Source : James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.81, The New Press
“How we educate the mind will change with the times; how we cultivate the heart is and will remain timeless.”

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