"Giving up control and just trying to be happy at the moment has proven to be the best thing for me."

-- Taya Kyle

#Giving Up Quotes #Trying Quotes #Moments Quotes

“Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis. Unlike 'mad' scientists, horror-movies madmen are not visionary obsessives, glorifying in scientific reason as they single-mindedly purse their researches. They are, rather, victims of overpowering impulses that well up from within; monsters brought forth by the sleep of reason, not by its attractions.”
“If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for whom the State will not even buy breakfast and as someone said, "If you're going to hang me, you mustn't expect to be able to intimidate me into sparing your feelings during the execution.”
“Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.”
“It's no wonder we know how to dress; we've spent centuries in closets.”
“He said to tell you to remember your heart in all things, that it is where your honor and your destiny will be found. Does it mean anything to you?' It is something he would say from time to time-that the eye could be misled, but that the heart was true.”
“The core of ethics runs deep in our species and is common to human beings everywhere. It survives the most appalling hardships and the most ruthless attempts to deprive human beings of their humanity. Nevertheless, some people resist the idea that his core has a biological basis which we have inherited from our pre-human ancestors.”
“As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different.”
“It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue, the shores a bank of solid gold.”

Source : Sigurd F. Olson (1969). “Open horizons”, Alfred A. Knopf

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