"Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along."

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Source : Gwendolyn Brooks, “Speech To The Young: Speech To The Progress-Toward”

Gwendolyn Brooks

#Running Quotes #Song Quotes #Home Quotes

“The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.”
“Anything you believe you have to do or become before you can be free is a denial and distraction from the truth that you are already free.”
“You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.”
“Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.”

Source : Frederick William Faber (1857). “The Creator and the Creature Or the Wonders of Divine Love”, p.58
“At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.”
“There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel.”
“I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.”
“Statistically, skinny women die younger than fat women. Why? Because fat women are killing them.”

Source : Joy Behar (1999). “Joy Shtick or What is the Existential Vacuum and Does it Come with Attachments”, Hyperion

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