"Sometimes youâ€™re just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one."

-- Haruki Murakami

#Summer Quotes #Vacation Quotes #Puppy Quotes

“I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.14, Open Road Media
“No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.”
“All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy. I don't look for skill in art...Skill has nothing to do with technical proficiency... I'm interested in people who rethink skill, who redefine or reimagine it: an engineer, say, who builds rockets from rocks.”
“It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.”
“When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.”
“This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.”
“When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.”

Source : "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.
“The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access”

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