"Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might otherwise grow rusty."

-- Pico Iyer

#Two Quotes #Issues Quotes #Sight Quotes

“More energy is encapsulated in every drop of good spring water than an average-sized PowerStation is presently able to produce.”

Source : Viktor Schauberger “Living Energies”, Рипол Классик
“The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.”
“My kid was a great baseball player. I thought I had it made. Front-row seats at Yankee Stadium. Then he turned sixteen and wanted to be a rapper.”
“After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.”
“Effective readers, even at their earliest levels, read in five to seven word phrases rather than word by word.”
“Now piercÃ¨d is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.”
“I think we are ready to know that there are going to be people who are ready to save the world, who come out when you're in trouble and make sure that you're okay.”
“The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.”

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