"There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult."

-- Paulo Coelho

#People Quotes #Secret Quotes #Natural Quotes

“The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.”
“Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.”
“Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“I was surprised by how many people think of themselves as procrastinators, but, like me, seem to get a lot done anyway.”

Source : "John Perry: An interview by Bob Morris". bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.
“I would very much like to become a best-selling author.”
“Food is fun to write about because everybody has an opinion. Food is also fun to write about because it's a challenge. There are only so many ways to describe a plate of gnudi without resorting to "pillowy."”

Source : Source: www.newyorker.com
“If you begin to have a relationship where you're doing what the guards want, and once you're out you will see that as a treason, a treason to your country, a treason to yourself, a treason to everybody, so you have to be very cautious on what is the perspective you're looking at yourself, and you have always to see yourself like from the outside.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Focus on the journey, not on arriving at a certain destination.”

Source : Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.89, Pan Macmillan

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