"Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought."

-- Jon Meacham

#Running Quotes #Long Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“I'm pretty grounded in a lifestyle which disciplines me and gives me a sense of familiarity and comfort.”
“Develop The Grit To be great.”
“Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.”
“I feel so small I could sit on a dime an' my legs wouldn't even hang over ...”

Source : Mary Lasswell (2016). “One on the House”, p.23, Open Road Media
“I think people should consume their music any way they want. If it's more practical for them to listen to it on an iPod or something, that's fine by me.”
“We are born in this world to lose as well as to gain, to have happiness as well as misery. Enrich your mind by understanding this and improve, gaining stability thereby.”
“A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all.”

Source : 'Blue Skies, Brown Studies' (1961) 'From a Writer's Notebook'
“I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does.”

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