"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle."

-- Nhat Hanh

#Motivational Quotes #Buddhist Quotes #Children Quotes

“Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!”
“I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.”
“Despite my lovely diction I am going to die.”
“I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.”

Source : Tug McGraw, Don Yaeger (2005). “Ya Gotta Believe!: My Roller-Coaster Life as a Screwball Pitcher and Part-Time Father, and My Hope-Filled Fight Against Brain Cancer”, Signet
“Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.”
“I was never more alive than when the Dark Passenger was driving.”
“Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.”
“But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.”

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