"Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way."

-- H. Richard Niebuhr

#Wise Quotes #Goal Quotes #Might Quotes

“Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.”
“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
“The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.”

Source : c.1460 'Robene and Makeyne', l.91-2.
“Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible to have a book out.”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com
“How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.”

Source : Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.223, tredition
“I'm not playing for lack of options. But this is such a fleeting thing. When I'm done, I'm never, ever going to be able to come back to it. I know Vancouver is my last go.”
“I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know that I would keep writing even if no one ever published me again, even if no one ever read me again.”
“Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.”

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