"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."

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Source : Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot (1860). “The National Review”, p.234

Walter Bagehot

#Long Quotes #Meditation Quotes #Calming Quotes

“Our favorite holding period is forever.”
“No matter how good somebody's life looks from the outside, you can be sure there's something about it you wouldn't want to have in your life.”

Source : Jean Ferris (2009). “Twice Upon a Marigold”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Jane," I said quietly. She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer. "Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying." "If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out.”
“I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“High achievers don't like mediocre people, mediocre people don't like high achievers.”
“For life is a journey through a wilderness”

Source : Bruce Chatwin (1997). “Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989”, p.77, Penguin
“The world is R-rated, and no one's checking IDs”
“I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.”

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