"The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods."

-- Cheryl Strayed

#Woods Quotes #Way Quotes #Wilderness Quotes

“Well, Congress gave us a billion dollars to dig the hole, this gigantic hole. Bigger, much bigger than the hole in Geneva, Switzerland. Then they canceled the machine and gave us a second billion dollars to fill up the hole. Two billion dollars to dig a hole and fill it up. That is the wisdom of the United States Congress and it really makes you wonder: Is there intelligent life on the Earth? Certainly not in the United States Congress.”
“I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.”

Source : Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. September 22, 2003.
“Nothing goes on forever; if one could only remember that.”
“Leadership must first and foremost meet the needs of others.”
“Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldnâ€™t think that human inner values donâ€™t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided.”
“Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was to become the academic black sheep. I performed adequately at high school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.”
“Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.”
“Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.”

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