#rest

It was a though we’d been living for a year in a dense grove of old trees, a cluster of firs, each with its own rhythm and character, from whom our bodies had drawn not just shelter but perhaps even a kind of guidance as we grew into a family. ↗

— David Abram

#nature #trees #family

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. ↗

— A. A. Milne

#corner #forest #go #others #sometimes

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#interesting #interesting people #missing #people

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#back #between #days #exclusive #flying

Great men have great discipline.” ― Habeeb Akande ↗

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#great #greatness #hero #leaders #leadership

Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day. ↗

— Mickey Gilley

#got #help #hours #i #me

I thought, I need to reinvent myself. I want every day of life to be wonderful, fascinating, interesting, creative. And what am I gonna do to make that happen? ↗

— Karen Allen

#creative #day #every #every day #fascinating

Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums. ↗

— Rick Allen

#before #course #drums #i #interest

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too. ↗

— Paul Allen

#best #could #exhibits #feeling #give

When I handed over the names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union, I had come to the conclusion that the loss of these sources to the U.S. would not compromise significant national defense, political, diplomatic interests. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#cia #come #compromise #compromised #conclusion