"Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness."

-- Sarah Orne Jewett

#Happiness Quotes #Long Quotes #Return Quotes

“Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.”

Source : Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.34, Ballantine Books
“There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it.”
“My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to. Their damp marine weather, blowing in from the southwest, came in the right direction. When the mountains are hidden under a low sky, one might almost imagine oneself to be in Britain.”
“Beloved Beowulf, remember how you boasted, Once, that nothing in the world would ever Destroy your fame; fight to keep it, Now, be strong and brave, my noble King, protecting life and fame Together. My sword will fight at your side!”
“Sex and violence was never really my cup of tea; I was always more into sax and violins.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn't.”
“The struggle of our people for freedom has progressed to the form where all of us must take a stand either for or against the freedom of our people You are either with Your People or against them. You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.”

Source : Speech in San Francisco, 1968
“For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least thatâ€™s why Iâ€™ve put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. Iâ€™m no great runner, by any means. Iâ€™m at an ordinary â€“ or perhaps more like mediocre â€“ level. But thatâ€™s not the point. The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.”

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