"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn."

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Source : Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

John Muir

#Peace Quotes #Nature Quotes #Sunshine Quotes

“The practical man is the adventurer, the investigator, the believer in research, the asker of questions, the man who refuses to believe that perfection has been attained.... There is no thrill or joy in merely doing that which any one can do.... It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way.”
“To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]”
“You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
“When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.”

Source : Polly Horvath (2003). “The Canning Season”, p.62, Macmillan
“Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.”

Source : Phoebe Stone (2012). “The Boy on Cinnamon Street”, p.112, Scholastic Inc.
“I don't like to reminisce much, and my walls don't have photographs of me and the actors I was with, or any of that stuff. I try and keep that disciplined, and just work. There are so many traps you can get into, and looking back on your own work is certainly one of them.”
“Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.”
“I can start playing ukulele and then I'll go to a note that I think will be there, but because of the tuning, it's a completely different note. That excites me. That's why I had the ukulele around in the first place, years ago. It was to just break out of habits.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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