"The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages."

-- Christopher Morley

#Sleep Quotes #Average Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.”
“My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.”
“There is no shape nor size of body, no awkwardness nor ungainliness, which puts good golf beyond reach. There are good golfers with spectacles, with one eye, with one leg, even with one arm. In golf, while there is life there is hope.”
“We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.”
“I myself had lived in the San Fernando Valley many years ago, when it was a much wilder place, and we used to go walking in the wild areas. So that early experience had a lot of similarities for me to the places that Double Negative was being done.”
“Without us, Earth will abide and endure; without her, however, we could not even be.”
“One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is long gone â€¦and the other kind of hurt, the damage done to our spirits, has been healed. We are careful with those scarred places in each other.”
“... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.”

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