"You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea."

-- Earl Nightingale

#Blessing Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Boredom Quotes

“In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.”

Source : "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". edition.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.
“There's more to life than physical and material.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ziggy Marley from May 29, 2012
“Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind...”
“All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. The man strongly possessed of an idea is the master of all who are uncertain or wavering. Clear, deep, living convictions rule the world.”

Source : James Freeman Clarke (1875). “Common-sense in Religion: A Series of Essays”, p.339
“The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”
“Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?”
“This kind of internal "telepathic" intercourse, which was to serve me in all my wanderings, was at first difficult, innefective, and painful. But in time I came to be able to live through the experiences of my host with vividness and accuracy, while yet preserving my own individuality, my own critical intelligence, my own desires and fears. Only when the other had come to realize my presence within him could he, by a special act of volition, keep particular thoughts secret from me.”

Source : Olaf Stapledon (2017). “Star Maker”, p.26, Sheba Blake Publishing
“I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl.”

Source : "Woman on the verge". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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