"One can make a day of any size"

-- John Muir

#Seize The Day Quotes #Size Quotes

“In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?”

Source : Marlene Dietrich (1962). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC.”
“I actually want to go up into space.”
“I don't really diet or anything. I'm miserable when I'm dieting and I like the way I look. I'm really sick of all these actresses looking like birds I'd rather look a little chubby on camera and look like a person in real life, than look great on screen and look like a scarecrow in real life.”
“And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.”
“Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?”
“It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.”
“Most times a person grows up gradually, but I found myself in a hurry... Hoping to find an answer, I uncovered an article about the common goldfish. "Kept in a small bowl, the goldfish will remain small. With more space, the fish will double, triple, or quadruple in size." It occurred to me then that I was intended for larger things. After all, a giant man can't have an ordinary-sized life.”
“A faith that can only exist in the light of victory and certainty is one which really affirms the self while pretending to affirm Christ, for it only follows Jesus in the belief that Jesus has conquered death. Yet a faith that can look at the horror of the cross and still say â€˜yesâ€™ is one that says â€˜noâ€™ to the self in saying â€˜yesâ€™ to Christ.”

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