"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Positive Quotes

“Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof. Take that Poppy seed, for instance: it lies in your palm, the merest atom of matter, hardly visible, a speck, a pin's point in bulk, but within it is imprisoned a spirit of beauty ineffable, which will break its bonds and emerge from the dark ground and blossom in a splendor so dazzling as to baffle all powers of description.”
“You've committed murder just as much as HÃ©lÃ¨ne did. You killed a fly with a human head, she killed a human with a fly head. If she murdered so did you.”
“Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.”

Source : "The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations". Book edited by Jim Apfelbaum, 2007.
“The first seastead happened fifteen centuries ago. The result was the most beautiful city in the world, Venice. People who were sick of their violent governments fled to the water, where they built civilization on stilts. That startup society - a free city-state on the water - became so successful it dominated the Mediterranean for a thousand years.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If it's a story that I feel is exciting and necessary, those are really motivating factors for me.”
“He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool -- shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple -- teach him.”

Source : Lady Isabel Burton (1893). “The Life of Captain Sir Richd. F. Burton”
“This new sport is comparable to no other. It is, in my opinion, one of the most intoxicating forms of sport, and will, I am sure, become one of the most popular. Many of us will perish before then, but that prospect will not dismay the braver spirits. . . . It is so delicious to fly like a bird!”
“the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall.”

Source : Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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