"I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life."

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Wojciech Kurtyka

#Dream Quotes #Climbing Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.”

Source : Laura Joh Rowland (2007). “The Concubine's Tattoo”, p.229, Macmillan
“Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.”

Source : William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.30, Transaction Publishers
“Leadership is possible in all different ways, and in all different areas of life. Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.”
“If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.”
“Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling.”
“Some people did take the domestic goddess title literally rather than ironically. It was about the pleasures of feeling like one rather than actually being one.”

Source : "A Woman of Extremes". Interview with Nigel Farndale, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 14, 2001.
“Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.”

Source : 1610 On the monks of Patmos. Relation of aJourney Begun An. Dom.1610.
“When we are calling forth the depth and genius of the other, then we grow.”

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