"When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the woods alone, doing things that are physically or mentally demanding to keep myself busy until the next big idea comes."

-- Philipp Meyer

#Book Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Woods Quotes

“It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.”
“There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.”
“The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.”
“She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love.”
“You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that's under your control and the other isn't.”
“I don't have to explain anything to anybody.”
“The most important thing people can do is refuse to have any resistance to staying connected to their source. People resist being able to attract abundance into their lives.”
“The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life is absorbed in avoiding death, which is inevitable, and therefore he might be thought to be the most irrational of men, if rationality has anything to do with understanding ends or comprehending the human situation as such. He gives way without reserve to his most powerful passion and the wishes it engenders.”

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