"When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart."

-- Diane Ackerman

#Heart Quotes #Ice Quotes #Sky Quotes

“Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116”
“Everything I do is for my people.”
“To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.”

Source : Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan
“You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?”
“The only excursion of my life outside of New Orleans took me through the vortex to the whirlpool of despair: Baton Rouge. . . . New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.181, LSU Press
“I just want to love and be loved.”
“So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.”
“You have to just forget about the ball and swing the club. It's hard to see if you don't hit the green.”

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