"A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave his road, to tame all of nature into compliance. The other is to make sandals. Making sandals is the internal solution...it does not base success on a submissive world or overpowering force, but on intelligent preparation and cultivated resilience."

-- Joshua Waitzkin

#Intelligent Quotes #Men Quotes #Land Quotes

“The course of true anything never does run smooth.”
“Photo of POTUS mtg w speechwriters Cody Keenan and Jon Favreau today.”
“Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her.”
“Everybody should have a chance to rise. That's our philosophy in Ohio and that's my philosophy for America.”

Source : "Gov. John Kasich On Health Policy, Religion And Inclusiveness". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 25, 2015.
“Being single is not as bad as everyone likes to make it seem!”
“If you defend, rebound and limit turnovers, you're going to put yourself in a position where you can win games”
“The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.”
“Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.”

Source : "Books for giving: science" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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