"L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day."

-- Julian Casablancas

#Vacation Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Weather Quotes

“No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste; everything is perfectly clean and pure and full of divine lessons.”
“Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!”
“Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.”
“I perceive we postpone all our joys of Christ, till He and we be in our own house above, thinking that there is nothing of it here to be sought or found, but only hope and fair promises; and that Christ will give us nothing here but tears, sadness, crosses; and that we shall never feel the smell of the flowers of that high garden of paradise above, till we come there. Nay, but I find it possible to find young glory, and a young green paradise of joy even here. We dream of hunger in Christ's house, while we are here, although He alloweth feasts to all the bairns within God's household.”
“We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.”
“We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been naturally attracted to the extraordinary as a dimension of experience and that at some point they seem also to have been moved to make the ordinary extraordinary-that is, to shape or elaborate everyday, mundane reality and thereby transform it into something special, different from the everyday.”
“It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.”
“Being tender and open is beautiful. As a woman, I feel continually shhhâ€™ed. Too sensitive. Too mushy. Too wishy washy. Blah blah. Donâ€™t let someone steal your tenderness. Donâ€™t allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart. Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things.”

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