"Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. - Orison Swett Marden Bring me with your hands that flower which yearns Up to the ultimate transparent white Where all of life into its essence burns: Bring me that flower impassioned of the light."

-- Eugenio Montale

#Stars Quotes #Flower Quotes #Men Quotes

“...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.”

Source : Jon Krakauer (2012). “Eiger Dreams: Ventures among men and mountains”, p.48, Pan Macmillan
“I'm not a very savvy operator - it's not who I am, it's not what I do - and so I have to go at things in ways that suit me. I just write what I write and the stuff finds its vagrant way in the world, somehow. The venues appear; the work always finds a home, eventually.”

Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.
“Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.”
“Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.”
“What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.”
“Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.”

Source : Interview With Dan Hyman, music.avclub.com. December 20, 2011.
“Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words and practicing strategies that make a difference in our writing.”
“This is advertising that is designed not to look or feel like advertising at all. The one thing we felt we got parents to agree with was that if their children ask them questions about enlisting, they had an obligation to, one, engage, and then two, be informed.”

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