“My musical playlist are secret of my real happiness,”
“As we grow older, it is our responsibility, as adults, to control our destiny - we are the masters of our faith, we are the captains of our souls.”
Source: Living Free: The High Philosophy
“The process of honing our skills is a lifelong journey, and the beginning of the process is possibly the most important part -because we truly need to discover how deep our love for it goes.”
Source: Living Free: The High Philosophy
“but to succeed we must commit to it, we must believe that it is the thing for us, it is where our happiness and fortune lies.”
Source: Living Free: The High Philosophy
“If we continue to believe, and make decisions based on where our heart really lies, we can never make a bad decision”
Source: Living Free: The High Philosophy
“we always have the time to do the things we want to do, and to be the people we want to be, we just need to choose to do it - to make the time to do it.”
Source: Living Free: The High Philosophy
“A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest himself in the characters and is concerned to see how they act in given circumstances, and what happens to them; he sympathizes with their troubles and is gladdened by their joys; he puts himself in their place and, to an extent, lives their lives. Their view of life, their attitude to the great subjects of human speculation, whether stated in words or shown in action, call forth in him a reaction of surprise, of pleasure or of indignation. But he knows instinctively where his interest lies and he follows it as surely as a hound follows the scent of a fox. Sometimes, through the author's failure, he loses the scent. Then he flounders about till he finds it again. He skips.”
Source: Great novelists and their novels: Essays on the ten greatest novels of the world, and the men and women who wrote them
“Albert's uncle says I ought to have put this in the preface, but I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.”
Source: The Story of the Treasure Seekers
“Myself I love a thunderstorm better than anything. Sometimes I will run to the top of the hill to whirl around and around on my Indian Rock in the wind, it is like a dance I can not stop. The smell of the lightning goes into your nose and down your whole body. Old Bess says if you get hit by lightning yet live you will have special powers, well I could use some of those. So I don't care if I get hit or not.”
Source: On Agate Hill
“The sea stood up before him, foaming, torn by lightning bolts, opening terrifying mouths that gobbled up the dense, hard black rains unleashed by the sky like hate.”