"Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well."

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Source : "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1982.

Benjamin Hoff

#Sight Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Lines Quotes

“You are what you practice most.”
“That's the classic nature of people, though. We'll skip the basics and get pissed when the sexy stuff doesn't work.”
“We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.”

Source : Jerry Spinelli (2007). “Love, Stargirl”, p.179, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!”
“Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.”

Source : "Philosophy and the Arts: Collected Essays". Book by Bert Olivier, 2009.
“Through the dark and stormy night Faith beholds a feeble light Up the blackness streaking; Knowing God's own time is best, In a patient hope I rest For the full day-breaking!”
“My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.”
“Faith is reason grown courageous.”

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