"There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

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“American travel writing is very healthy. I'm always flicking through the reviews and I see plenty of travel writing - and an impressive line up and continual demand.”
“You can mythologize Steve Jobs, but really in the end, he was a kid from the Valley, with his funny little friends, and they made something. That's all he was.”
“The soul has no other wish than to have an unlimited number of fearless, joyful playmates on the journey home.”

Source : Penney Peirce, Michael Bernard Beckwith (2011). “Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration”, p.237, Simon and Schuster
“Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings”
“I don't take myself too seriously.”
“But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.”
“The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.”
“There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.”

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