"Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day."

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Tahereh Mafi

#Coffee Quotes #Energy Quotes #Idiot Quotes

“You can never forget the time you are living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time youâ€™re living in is the most important thing.”
“I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.”
“Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.”

Source : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”
“The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.”
“Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.”
“Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you.”

Source : Michael Phelps (2012). “No Limits: The Will to Succeed”, p.1991, Simon and Schuster
“As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.”
“the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.”

Source : Nancy Willard (2014). “A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.23, Open Road Media

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