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It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello. David Baldacci
When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud. And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud. At what has happened. Birds, at least must know. It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif. Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for... Robert Frost
Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings? Gustave Flaubert
Mother Teresa quote: "A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with..."
A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy. Mother Teresa
G. I. Gurdjieff quote: "Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God."
Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God. G. I. Gurdjieff
I am in love with you', I responded.He laughed the most beguiling and gentle laugh.'Of course you are,' he replied. 'I understand perfectly because I'm in love with myself. The fact that I'm not transfixed in front of the nearest mirror takes a great deal of self-control.'It was my turn to laugh. Anne Rice
What I remembered most clearly about this Jinja road was that on portions of it, for reasons no one could explain, butterflies settled in long fluffy tracts. There might be eighty feet of road carpeted by white butterflies, so many of them that if you drove too fast your tires lost their grip, and some people lost their lives, skidding on butterflies. Paul Theroux
Jim Rohn quote: "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time..."
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. Jim Rohn
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even..."
What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money..."
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling. Gustave Flaubert
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the..."
the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls Friedrich Nietzsche
The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking "But I never knew before. I never dreamed...." I suppose it was at such a moment that Thomas Aquinas said of all his own theology, "It reminds me of straw. C. S. Lewis
At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an extraordinary woman, and a great feminist. It has to do with the people in my life. It has to do with a lot of different things, but -- I don't know! Because I'm not just writing from the female characters for other people. I have a desire to see them in our culture -- that was not met for most of my childhood. Except occasionally by James Cameron. [From the 2011 San Diego Comic Con, in response to... Joss Whedon
He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul. Emily Bronte
Michael Ondaatje quote: "What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in..."
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Michael Ondaatje

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