"The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble -- to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills. I produce nothing but words; I consumer nothing but food, a little propane, a little firewood. By being utterly useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself."

-- Philip Connors

#Sleep Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.”
“I just think itâ€™s amazing that a person could lose everything, chasing nothing.”
“We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.”
“Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.”

Source : Mary Balogh (2010). “A Secret Affair”, p.326, Delacorte Press
“I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.”
“When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.”
“Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.”
“We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.”

Source : Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.426

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