"I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say."

-- Josh Turner

#Song Quotes #Morning Quotes #Writing Quotes

“My mother only said: Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children.”

Source : Nissim Ezekiel (1966). “Poetry India”
“The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.”

Source : Sir Walter Scott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott (Illustrated)”, p.5509, Delphi Classics
“Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer â€“ Death has never forsaken any man”
“If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings.”

Source : Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.57, The Book Foundation
“The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.”
“Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.”
“A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.”

Source : Walter Bagehot (1910). “Literary Studies (Miscellaneous Essays): Hartley Coleridge. Shakespeare, the man. William Cowper. The first Edinburgh reviewers. Edward Gibbon. Percy Bysshe Shelley”
“Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.”

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