"...some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and adventure that make a full life. There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need ever be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings."

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Source : D. E. Stevenson (1978). “Listening Valley”

D.E. Stevenson

#Book Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Winter Quotes

“Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.”

Source : "The Meaning of Life" by Ben Gibbard, www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.
“Better a live doggerel than a dead sonnet.”
“I think that players that are better at reading people are much more dangerous and difficult to play against, because then you have to think more about what they might be thinking.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers.”
“Everyone disappoints [Larry Kramer]. So it's not a problem for him either way.”

Source : Source: fourtwonine.com
“In a moment, everything can change and in a moment, you can change everything.”
“I often wondered why I was attracted to certain landscapes and not others and why my photographs (and depictions by other artists) looked the way they did, Archetypes imprinted on my mind started me on a search ...”

Source : John Pfahl (1997). “Permutations on the picturesque”
“If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.”

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