"It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet."

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Source : Stacy Aumonier (1921). “The Golden Windmill: And Other Stories”

Stacy Aumonier

#Easier Quotes #Banquets Quotes

“Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained; and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.”
“I was just walking around like a zombie..I really had no idea what I was doing.. But the best thing that I did do was leave and get the hell out of there. I have no regrets.”
“The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.”
“Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.”
“Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.”
“As long as you and I are still breathing, we have a purpose to serve”

Source : Emmitt Smith (2011). “Game On: Find Your Purpose--Pursue Your Dream”, p.63, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.”
“If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom.”

Source : Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.228, Profile Books

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