"Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's."

-- Mignon McLaughlin

#Running Quotes #Luck Quotes #Energy Quotes

“Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.”
“I did not weep, and it pained me that i could not weep. But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like--free at last!”
“I want to be a good role model for girls and show them they can do whatever they feel passionate about and still live a healthy life.”
“Each of us has an Aladdin's Lamp which psychologists call creative imagination.”

Source : Alex Faickney Osborn (1942). “How to Think Up”
“Remember that transformation is a present activity.”
“How can I no longer bear my weary doom? Alas! what have I gain'd for all I lost?”

Source : Maria Gowen Brooks (1834). “Zóphiël: Or, The Bride of Seven”, p.140
“A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.”
“Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”

Source : "Essay on Poetry" by John Sheffield,

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