"it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing."

-- Agnes Repplier

#Travel Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Trials Quotes

“Beauty in art is truth bathed in an impression received from nature. I am struck upon seeing a certain place. While I strive for conscientious imitation, I yet never for an instant lose the emotion that has taken hold of me.”

Source : From Corot's 'Notebooks', 1856. "Artists on Art, from the 14 to 20 Centuries". Book by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, p. 241, 1972.
“In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn't tolerate this anymore.”
“Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert”
“While watching the New Orleans Saints on television, I got angry and punched my bed, and then my remote control flew up and hit me in the head. My girlfriend didn`t stop laughing for an hour.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.”
“Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. Itâ€™s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules, you know. . . Itâ€™s just that there are more of them. Everyone has chapters and cliffhangers. Everyone has their journey to make. Some go far and wide and come back empty-handed; some donâ€™t go anywhere and their journey makes them richest of all. Some tales have a moral and some donâ€™t make any sense. Some will make you laugh, others make you cry. The world is a library, young Poison, and youâ€™ll never get to read the same book twice.”
“The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because itâ€™s comforting; because itâ€™s so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so.”

Source : "Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt". Book by Lewis Michael, March 31, 2014.
“The fascinating thing about human beings is that they don't last, and everything eventuates, and everything is very, very brief. And even if you do manage to look reasonably well as you age, unfortunately you are attacked at every level by illness and so forth. It's a fact of life.”

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