"People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored."

-- Eugene H. Peterson

#People Quotes #Mystery Quotes #Problem Quotes

“Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive.”
“Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.”
“We can't float through life. We can't be incidental or accidental. We must fix our gaze on a guiding star as soon as one comes upon the horizon and once we have attached ourselves to that star we must keep our eyes on it and our hands upon the plow. It is the consistency of the pursuit of the highest possible vision that you can find in front of you that gives you the constancy, that gives you the encouragement, that gives you the way to understand where you are and why it's important for you to do what you can do.”

Source : Ossie Davis (2006). “Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.269, Simon and Schuster
“Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.”
“My whole life has been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that let's you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first compost heap.”

Source : Ragna Thiis Stang, Edvard Munch (1979). “Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist”
“You must be sure that you give back something that's beneficial to the game. Any of the teaching you do must be for the benefit of the men who play.”
“Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.”
“Superior athletes want to be accountable for their own results. Â—”

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