"[Nature said] The sea shall disjoin the people [of England] from others, and knit them to a fierce nationality. It shall give them markets on every side. Long time I will keep them on their feet, by poverty, border-wars . . . seafaring . . ."

-- Marsilio Ficino

#War Quotes #Sea Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Don't let negative people drain your energy. Focus on your positive energy and kill them with kindness. Energy vampires are no match for your positive energy.”
“She wanted happily ever after more than he could possibly know. She wanted forever. Problem was, she just wasnâ€™t sure she believed in it anymore. It was why she clung to her fiction so much. She immersed herself in books because there she could be anyone and it was easy to believe in love and happily ever after”

Source : Maya Banks (2012). “Shades of Gray: A KGI Novel”, p.92, Penguin
“I am more important than my problems.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”

Source : Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Idiot (English French edition illustrated): L’Idiot (Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.1139, Clap Publishing, LLC.
“No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over ... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.”
“We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.”

Source : Frank Moore Colby (1921). “The Margin of Hesitation”
“Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.”

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