"Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?"

-- Gail Godwin

#Success Quotes #Flying Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.”
“When did the cell phone become a license to be rude? And why must I be subjected to your personal conversations?”
“It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.”
“You are God in a physical body. You are Spirit in the flesh. You are Eternal Life expressing Itself as You. You are a cosmic being. You are all power. You are all wisdom. You are all intelligence. You are perfection. You are magnificence. You are the creator, and you are creating the creation of You on this planet”
“I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.”
“It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.”
“Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.”
“A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy”

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