"Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence."

-- A. E. Coppard

#Loneliness Quotes #Home Quotes #Wind Quotes

“The churches rose to power on the income from tax-free property. What earthly -or heavenly- right have they got to enjoy a privilege denied to everyone else, even including nonprofit organizations? None! My contention is that with the churches exempted from property taxation, you and I have to pay that much more in taxes to make up for what they're not contributing.”
“In this world I probably know best. The person I like doesn't look at me but looks at someone else, smiles for someone else. I really know how you're feeling. And I can't truthfully be jealous either. I think if two people naturally like each other, it's almost like a miracle. Someday, will that miracle come true for me too?”
“What words are in you that can change the world?”
“Marilyn always dreamt of being an actress. She didn't, by the way, dream of being just a star. She dreamt of being an actress. And she had always lived somehow with that dream. And that is why, despite the fact that she became one of the most unusual and outstanding stars of all time, she herself was never satisfied. When she came to New York, she began to perceive the possibilities of really accomplishing her dream, of being an actress.”
“Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.”
“Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.”
“How much we can do depends on how much we think we can do. When you really believe you can do more, your mind thinks creatively and shows you the way.”

Source : David J Schwartz (2016). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.128, Random House
“Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the technology obsession.”

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