"The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise."

-- Greg Mortenson

#Appreciate Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Paradise Quotes

“Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.”
“When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.”
“People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.”

Source : Interview with Christina Lessa, flattmag.com.
“To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.”
“Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the 'time to be right' to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”
“Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain - they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter.”

Source : N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.84, Thomas Nelson Inc
“â€Ž'The demon cried, waving its furry arms above his head like a demented orangutan.”
“The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.”

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