"I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!"

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Samuel Rogers

#Running Quotes #Art Quotes #Morning Quotes

“Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.”
“It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.”

Source : Jesse Ball (2014). “Silence Once Begun: A Novel”, p.216, Vintage
“Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.”

Source : Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.145, New Directions Publishing
“If you have life, you have purpose.”
“For some reason, that I canâ€™t really explain, at the beginning of Radiolab, it always felt like life or death. Even though it was just a radio show. Even though no one was listening. And I am not quite sure whyâ€¦ but it may have to do with that radical uncertainty you feel when you are trying to work without a template.”
“Feeling good about your life, but not expressing a heartfelt 'thank you,' is like wrapping a gift for someone and never giving it to them.”

Source : "The Five Fundamentals of Management Etiquette" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.
“An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.”
“By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts, on the grass in a summer evening, among the sounds of the night. May God bless my people, my uncle, my aunt, my mother, my good father, oh, remember them kindly in their time of trouble; and in the hour of their taking away.”

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