Bolstad Ruark Quotes & Sayings

The naturalist E. O. Wilson gave a name to this warm, fuzzy feeling I'm experiencing: biophilia. He defined it as "the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms." Wilson argued that our connection to nature is deeply ingrained in our evolutionary past. That connection isn't always positive. Take snakes, for instance. The chances of encountering a snake, let alone dying from a snakebite, are extraordinarily remote. Yet modern humans continue to fear snakes even more, studies have found, than car accidents or homicide or any of the dozens of other more plausible ways we might meet our demise. The fear of snakes resides deep in our primitive brain. The fear of the Long Island Expressway, while not insignificant, was added much more recently. — Eric Weiner

I knew i would win. I cheated to win and so i felt surprised that i felt so surprised! — Daniel B. Harris

Seventh letter : Life's simplest pleasures are life's greatest joys

Most people dont discover whats most important in life untill they are too old to do anything about it. They spend many of their best years pursuing things that matter little in the end. While society invites us to fill our with material objects, the best part of us knows that the more basic pleasures are the ones that enriches and sustain us. No matter how easy or hard our conditions, we all have wealth of simple blessings around us - waiting to be continued. As we do our happiness grows. Our gratitude expands. And each day becomes a breathtaking gift. — Robin S. Sharma

Winning is an inside job. A person who achieves victory is the one that first wins his or her internal battles. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Can one man's madness be another's real life? — Emma Frances Dawson

The biggest impact I can have for what I want to do, the results I want to have with what God's given me, is to help as many people as possible get to heaven. — Thomas Monaghan

Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it. — Roland Barthes

Start loving now, and you start Heaven now. — Bo Sanchez

He reminded me to focus on the "trendlines," not just the headlines, and to relish the experiences. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

Watch out for people that read. They usually know how to think for themselves too. — Jane Firebaugh