"I have never been nervous in all my life and I have no patience with people who are. If you know what you are going to do, you have no reason to be nervous. And I knew what I was going to do."

-- Mary Garden

#Inspirational Quotes #People Quotes #Nervous Quotes

“Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.”
“We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.”

Source : "All it takes is 10 mindful minutes". TED conference, www.ted.com. November 2012.
“Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.”
“Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.”
“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”

Source : "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.
“That's the real excellent scary part, that feeling, and that feeling won't come if the lady from next door is there and your mom won't ride the ride, because what brings on that feeling most is when your mom rides wedged in tight with you and your brother on nights like this, when your mom will scream the excellent scream, the scream that people you see in snatches on the boardwalk stop and stare for, the scream that stops the ride next door, the scream that tells us to our hearts the bolts have finally broken.”

Source : Mark Richard (2013). “The Ice at the Bottom of the World: Stories”, p.54, Anchor
“Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.”
“That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the sacrifice, or don't want to; has Holy Mother settled for the unsound and unhealthy? Has the Church, ever pragmatic, made do with what is left?”

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