#pi

What more could he need, this old man whose little leisure was divided between day-time gardening and night-time contemplation? Was not that narrow space with the sky its ceiling room enough for the worship of God in the most delicate of his works and in the most sublime? A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in -what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#inspirational #life #dreams

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. ↗

— Hector Hugh Munro

#come #happened #never #old #pass

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#spiritual-maturity #leadership

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#desires #emotions #fears #form #human

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation. ↗

— Rick Wright

#like #marriage #permanent #pink #pink floyd

Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't. ↗

— Dick Francis

#job #life #profession #faith

There are times that people can be so blinded by what they want IT to be, that whatever reality they perceieve it SHOULD be, they lose. ↗

— Jared Matthew Kessler

#new-age #quote #spiritual #age

By the way, you won't put that thing in about me wanting to have sex on a football pitch, will you? ↗

— Louise Nurding

#football #me #pitch #put #sex

There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I don't like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet. ↗

— Koren Zailckas

#hippie #hippies #metaphysics #new-age #yoga

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. ↗

— Paavo Nurmi

#because #everything #i #i am #mind