"Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

#Stars Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Violin Quotes

“Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer [in Afghanistan]. I don't think we are going to be any exception. What made us exempt from history?”
“Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?”
“Itâ€™s interesting how something that comes so easily to one person can be so impossible for someone else.”
“Successful people understand that you don't need to make things complicated.”

Source : "The Power of 'No'” by Raymond J. Arroyo, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2012.
“Education is only second to nature.”

Source : Horace Bushnell (2001). “Nature and the Supernatural”, p.53, Applewood Books
“If we are lending money that ostensibly we don't have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don't exist, I might suggest that we've gone around the bend a little bit,”
“Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when they are in a certain situation? If it is the latter, then we can go around crushing the villains for another thousand years and nothing will change.”
“At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.”

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