"The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light and with a lamp lengthen out the day."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Summer Quotes #Moving Quotes #Mean Quotes

“A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.”
“People call us arrogant, but just because we know we are right, it doesn't make us arrogant.”
“You cannot get an influence from the cuisine of a country if you don't understand it. You've got to study it.”
“God does not fill with His Holy Spirit those who believe in the fullness of the Spirit, or those who desire Him, but those who obey Him.”
“I could never swim in the ocean after seeing Jaws.”

Source : "Director Ridley Scott, Writer Damon Lindelof and Michael Fassbender Talk PROMETHEUS at WonderCon 2012". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 18, 2012.
“The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. Â When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.”
“My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.”
“Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.”

Source : William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

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