"I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy."

-- Magnus Carlsen

#Summer Quotes #Winter Quotes #Hiking Quotes

“If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.”
“Un auteur ga"Â te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.”
“The poet must be alike polished by an intercourse with the world as with the studies of taste; one to whom labour is negligence, refinement a science, and art a nature.”
“Praying helps me see perspectives otherwise beyond me.”
“In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.”

Source : Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.82, Souvenir Press
“I am feeling razor-sharp. Training sessions are really good. I feel that I am in peak condition. I know that I am ready for action.”
“Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Now and then I have, for my books or myself, been somewhat warmly denounced -- there was one good pastor in California who upon reading my Elmer Gantry desired to lead a mob and lynch me, while another holy man in the state of Maine wondered if there was no respectable and righteous way of putting me in jail.”
“Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.”

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