"I have to listen to New York; I live there. I wasn't born there, but I've been living there all my life."

-- Thelonious Monk

#New York Quotes #Born Quotes

“Numbers are the most certain things we have.”
“We can all reprogram our brain's responses by putting ourselves into new, initially uncomfortable situations. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.”
“There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.”

Source : "I want to make the world better". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.
“In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me.”
“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say 'yea' to it all.”
“An enriched capacity for rejoicing is an expanded capacity for worship.”
“I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.”

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