"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."

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Source : Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.12, University of Arizona Press

Edward Abbey

#Nature Quotes #Journey Quotes #Clouds Quotes

“I was a gay kid in high school in the late '90s, and I was in theater club. I was never a thespian. I was much more of a lighting guy or a backstage guy. Because I wanted to do something easy for the rest of my life, I thought, "Maybe I'll go and apply to colleges that specialize in theater set design. I'll do that. That's what I want to do". With theater, really, I'd be around the gays.”

Source : "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.
“You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.”
“For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must sacrifice to no God but Truth; he must neglect all else; his sole rule and unerring guide is this - to think not of those who are listening to him now, but of the yet unborn who shall seek his converse.”

Source : Lucian of Samosata (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics
“Judge not before you judge yourself. Judge not if youâ€™re not ready for judgment.”
“The more successful you become, the longer the yardstick people use to measure you by.”
“Weâ€™ll never be over, Eva.”
“It's good to remember often, every day, that you are not a physical creature in a physical universe; but a non-physical consciousness vibrating at a certain frequency. You are Consciousness having a state of being, that's it. Everything else you perceive is simply an illusory crystallization of your chosen vibration. You are the Creator of your life, in this way.”
“To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.”

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