"Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time."

-- Alain Gerbault

#Men Quotes #Islands Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“Silence is sometimes the best answer”
“A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.”
“Brazil is in a solid position. In the past, if the United States sneezed, we caught pneumonia. Today, if the United States sneezes, we sneeze too.”

Source : Interview with Richard Lapper and Jonathan Wheatley, www.ft.com. July 11, 2006.
“Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.”

Source : Kathi Appelt (2012). “The Underneath”, p.83, Simon and Schuster
“No one can blather on like a holy man with a trapped audience. Well, maybe a politician.”

Source : James S. A. Corey (2013). “Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse”, p.89, Hachette UK
“The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.”
“I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.”
“... men... who say that there is no one in our times and in our midst who is able to keep the Gospel commandments and become like the holy Fathers? To them the Master rightly says with a loud voice, 'Woe to you scribes and Pharisees (Mt. 23:13)! Woe to you, blind guides of the blind (Mt. 23:16), because you do not enter into the kingdom, and you hinder those who wish to enter' (Mt. 23:13).”

Source : Saint Symeon (the New Theologian) (1980). “Symeon New Theologian”, p.312, Paulist Press

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