"There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the planeâ€™s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power can inspire us to imagine analogous, decisive shifts in our own lives, to imagine that we, too, might one day surge above much that now looms over us.â€ P. 38-39"

-- Alain de Botton

#Inspire Quotes #One Day Quotes #Swiftness Quotes

“The Web provided me with a much needed realization that information cannot be fully separated from its presentation, and showed me something I knew without verbalizing explicitly, that the presentation form we choose communicates real information.”
“A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.”
“My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew”
“A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2010.
“Nature, and the original system that created us, must always remain somehow with us, the bedrock of our movements and actions. What is our duty? To live a life.”

Source : Rick Bass (1997). “The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado”, p.236, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my wife will have to give up whatever she's doing at that moment to tend to my needs. And in the same way, I would tend to hers. That's not such an easy thing to do.”
“Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.”
“Courage, Alexander..... Courage, Tatiana”

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