"The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it."

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Source : George Matthew Adams (1920). “Up: A Little Book of Talks on how to Wake Up, Get Up, Think Up, Climb Up, Smile Up, Cheer Up, Work Up, Look Up, Help Up, Grow Up!”

George Matthew Adams

“Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.”
“Twin Peaks' was the best job I ever had as an actor.”
“I figure a lot of folks are probably looking to find out if Moses Malone is into that stuff, but the closest I come to drugs is drinking a Coca-Cola. I don't want that cocaine; it's not for me.”

Source : Source: business.highbeam.com
“You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.”
“All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.”
“I'd begun to think that he'd given up on me in the weeks that had passed. Or that he no longer cared about me. Hated me even. And the idea of losing him forever, my best friend, the only person I'd ever trusted with my secrets, was so painful I couldn't stand it.”
“I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.”
“Some French politicians have said that the European Union should drop sanctions against Russia so everybody can join together in this fight against the Islamic State. But we're hearing from French officials that [Francois] Hollande hasn't changed his stance. He's - he's still saying that sanctions shouldn't be lifted until the Minsk agreement has been implemented.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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