"The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little."

-- Thomas Merton

#Wisdom Quotes #Temptation Quotes #Simple Life Quotes

“He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and have the sense of equanimity about his captaincy.”
“I can spend your money better than you can.”
“And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.”
“When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.”
“There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in modern times: the love of nature, the love of animals, the sense of social compassion, the sense of the spiritual dangers of affluence.”

Source : Henryk Skolimowski (1993). “A Sacred Place to Dwell: Living With Reverence Upon the Earth”, HarperElement
“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”
“I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.”

Source : Kathryn Lasky (2016). “The Journey (Guardians of Ga’Hoole, Book 2)”, p.22, HarperCollins UK
“So forget about blogs and bloggers and blogging and focus on this - the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower. And the effects of that increased pool of potential producers is going to be vast.”

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