"Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place."

-- Orison Swett Marden

#May Quotes #Higher Quotes #Occasions Quotes

“our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.”

Source : Jacquelyn Mitchard (1999). “The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship”, p.58, Penguin
“The world is full of paper, write to me”

Source : Agha Shahid Ali (1987). “The Half-Inch Himalayas”, p.48, Wesleyan University Press
“Be the best, but get ready to be attacked. Only mediocrity is safe.”
“I think it's interesting that the opposite of being active in yoga is not being passive. It's being receptive.”
“I'm not afraid of the press or the Militia.”
“One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen.”
“I know, people were like, "It's all right that she's gay, but she doesn't have to look so gay." Trust me - I'm never cutting my hair again!”
“Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures, I shall know that your good is mine: ye shall feel that my strength is yours: In the day of Armageddon, at the last great fight of all, That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall.”

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