"I ran for myself, not Finland."

-- Paavo Nurmi

#Running Quotes #Finland Quotes #Ran Quotes

“If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.”

Source : Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL
“I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.”
“We need less perfect but more free films.”

Source : Jonas Mekas (2016). “Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971”, p.16, Columbia University Press
“Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2010). “Blood Magic”, p.24, Penguin
“We do share with my mother what I would refer to as an anxiety gene. And I think it is genetic, that I worry about everything. Not every day, I don't want to say it like that, but I do worry a lot about - what was the line I heard the other day, when I was saying to a girlfriend of mine that I worry? She says, "Yes, I spent my whole life worrying - and some of the things actually came true."”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.”
“People are worried where additional supply will come from.”
“Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy soul-for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these-that where a man can live, there if he will, he can also live well.”

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