"There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams..."

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Source : James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.35, Vintage

James Salter

#Dream Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Aggression is simply another name for government.”

Source : Address to Unitarian Ministers, 1890.
“Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.”
“Writing is a fearsome but grand vocationâ€”potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldnâ€™t trade my life for the world.”
“The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.”
“Crises are challenges, not calamities.”
“Meditate. A few minutes of deep meditation will connect you with the ocean of intuition deep within you.”
“We're all as bureaucrats, or people who are - who work for state, every year we present our declaration of our incomes and expenditures to our special organs who control and double-control the declaration.”
“Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops.”

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