"Now that spring is no longer to be recognised in blossoms or in new leaves on trees, I must look for it in myself. I feel the ice of myself cracking. I feel myself loosen and flow again, reflecting the world. That is what spring means."

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Source : David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.60, Random House

David Malouf

#Art Quotes #Spring Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Ric Flair, you once called me a woman. Well, what I want to know is, how does it feel to get beat by a woman?”
“Without design, there may be representation, but there can be no art.”
“There is no explanation in the Big Bang theory for the seemingly fortuitous fact that the density of matter has just the right value for the evolution of a benign, life supporting universe.”
“It often happens that the mind of a person who is learning a new science has to pass through all the phases which the science itself has exhibited in its historical evolution.”

Source : "Balanchine Said" by Arlene Croce, www.newyorker.com. January 26, 2009.
“It was the first time I'd ever felt truly jealous of anyone else in my entire life.”
“At one point in my practice, of the 10 largest home builders in the United States, seven of the 10 were my clients.”
“God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love.”

Source : James MacDonald (2011). “Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard”, p.114, Moody Publishers
“Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure.”

Source : Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.243, Profile Books

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