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How reluctantly the mind consents to reality! ~Norman Douglas

It’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly

A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole. ~Mac O’Grady

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends. ~Richard Rorty

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart. ~W. Macneile Dixon

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. ~Henry Miller

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. ~Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around. ~Rick Reilly, “Master Strokes,” Sports Illustrated

Here is the basic question: are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes? ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~Author Unknown

Remember folks, street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph. ~Jim Samuels

In the opinion of the world, marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the opposite: it begins all. ~Anne Sophie Swetchine

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We’re not inherently anything but human. ~Robin Morgan

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ~Horace Mann

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. ~Thomas Merton

We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by two Brothers, 1827

When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders. ~Veterans Fast for Life

No man is above the law and no man below it. ~Theodore Roosevelt