"We recognize that we cannot survive on meditation, poems and sunsets. We are restless. We have an irresistible urge to dip our hands into the stuff of the earth and do something with it."

-- Samuel Florman

#Sunset Quotes #Hands Quotes #Meditation Quotes

“Counting your blessings is a better cure for insomnia than counting sheep - you can fall asleep before you get through half of them.”
“A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.”
“It's very early in the market. I don't want to pretend I know exactly how this rolls out. But there's been an enormous amount of interest.”
“If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.”
“God wants the world to function in an orderly way, not a chaotic way, so teaching humans to do what's right and what will make for the happiest life isn't going to be off limits.”
“You can put whatever you want inside evil and good in morality.”
“To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.”
“It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures which they cling to...You feel sad about all that self-indulgence and self-satisfaction, for you know with an indestructible certainty that something greater is coming.”

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