"Time and rest are needed for absorption. Psychologists confirm that it is really in the summer that our muscles learn to skate and in the winter, how to swim."

-- Jacques Barzun

#Summer Quotes #Winter Quotes #Swim Quotes

“Fear drives you and makes you better.”
“The real goal of physics is to come up with an equation that could explain the universe but still be small enough to fit on a T-shirt”
“Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.”

Source : "Southey's Colloquies on Society" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1830.
“Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.”
“They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.”
“I got a imam, I got a rabbi, I got a priest, I got a reverend â€” I got 'em all. But I don't want to be holier-than-thou. I want to help everybody and still get some (sex).”
“If you stick in the business of being creative, you get hurt. And creative disappointment seems so much harder to take than any other kind. But if you're not prepared to get hurt like that, life can be pretty boring. I think I'm going to keep on going.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We are not required to go through [Jesus'] trials, but we are required to be willing to go through them. To prove that we are willing to do so, we must go through our own trials and remain faithful.”

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