"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."

-- Neil Gaiman

#Couple Quotes #Heart Quotes #Insightful Quotes

“So, how do you get back to heaven? To begin with, just notice the thoughts that take you away from it. You don't have to believe everything your thoughts tell you. Just become familiar with the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness. It may seem strange at first to get to know yourself in this way, but becoming familiar with your stressful thoughts will show you the way home to everything you need.”
“The passion to condense from book to book Unbroken wisdom in a single look, Though we know well that when this fix the head, The mind's immortal, but the man is dead.”

Source : Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr
“It's all about... getting back up and getting back to work and striving to be the best you can be.”
“When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and true within humanity: a statement of belief backed by ideas for change betterment, a call to those immutable values wherein lie the potential greatness of people individually and collectively? Such exhortation, such leadership is lamentably scarce.”
“When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.”
“Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.”
“In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men; and under systematic management the best man rises to the top more certainly and more rapidly than ever before.”
“When I go back into education, I'm going to do business studies.”

Source : "Why are the catwalks so white?". Interview With Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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