"You've been so long in the rain, you feel like a dirty dish rag. But despite the misery of your water soaked body, you look around to see verdant leaves dripping with water. The air entering your lungs smells vibrantly clean. To experience adventure, you must be willing to be uncomfortable at times and enjoy the loneliness by being happy with your own singing. A song pops out of your mouth... "It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was fine...""

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Source : Peter McWilliams (1994). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Prelude Press

Frosty Wooldridge

#Song Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Rain Quotes

“We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.”

Source : Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.20, Penguin
“People don't make us angry, how we think makes us angry.”
“I play video games, dude!”
“You can't not be into basketball and grow up in Chicago or live in L.A., because people are so fanatical about the teams. You know what's going on with the games even if you don't watch.”

Source : "Virginia Madsen on smelling Christopher Walken, getting tax advice from Arnold Schwarzenegger, and more". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. July 19, 2013.
“If I could live in a tiny dwelling on a rock in the ocean, surrounded by the waves of the sea and cut off from the sight and sound of everything else, I would still not be free of the cares of this passing world, or from the fear that somehow the love of money might still come and snatch me away.”
“If you want something, give it”
“The only thing I can't control is the spin in the press. And so if I know I can't control that, I have to let it go.”
“Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.”

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