"God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

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“I've had weight issues all my life. I've been on all the diets: Atkins, liquid protein, Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I'm always on the StairMaster, and I do weights.”
“Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you.”
“I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.”
“I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.”
“The individual who cultivates grievances, and who is perpetually exacting explanations of his assumed wrongs, can only be ignored, and left to the education of time and of development.... One does not argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair.”

Source : Lilian Whiting (1896). “The World Beautiful”
“Most anything Ive ever set my mind to, I could accomplish.”
“Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to gathering facts. Besides expressing their condescension toward him in particular, that criticism also reflected a common attitude that fact-gathering, not theory, was the proper business of all naturalists.”

Source : David Quammen (1996). “The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions”, Vintage
“Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.”

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