"Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life."

-- Mary Ritter Beard

#Gay Quotes #One Day Quotes #Leisure Quotes

“While there's plenty to be said for drive and talent, it was my parents' support that started me on the path that led me here today.”
“Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!”

Source : William Allingham (1877). “Songs, Ballads, and Stories: Including Many Now First Collected, the Rest Revised and Rearranged”
“I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.”
“Anybody can be nobody, but it takes a man to be somebody.”
“If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.”
“Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.”

Source : "Our Passion for Justice : Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation". Book by Carter Heyward, 1984.
“The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It's not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.”

Source : "Lawrence Krauss, Physicist, Claims Teaching Creationism Is Child Abuse And ‘Like The Taliban’" By Meredith Bennett-Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2013.
“It is not enough to know what you want, you must also know why you want it, and what you will do once you have it! All those elements impact the world around you and therefore must be considered.”

Source : Kathleen McGowan (2012). “The Source of Miracles: Seven Powerful Steps to Transforming Your Life Through the Lord's Prayer”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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