Catapulting Commissions Quotes & Sayings

With great effort comes great gratification. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

No one has yet tested the pencil
To see how many words it can write — Xi Chuan

When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path. — Paula Fox

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future. — Sigmund Freud

Just know that someone out there always has it worst, and you should try to realize that there really is a lot to look forward to — John O'Callaghan

Yet the scene around me had its influence, and a guilty feeling possessed me as I realized that of all present in that place of peace and clean content, I was the only profane thing, an ogre lurking to destroy. The half-grown ferns and evergreen sedge grasses through which the early breeze whispered, would, if I had my way, soon be smeared with the blood of some animal, who was viewing, perhaps with feelings akin to my own, the dawning of another day; to be is last. Strange thoughts, maybe, coming from a trapper, one whose trade is to kill;but be it known to you that he who lives much alone within the portals of the temple of Nature learns to think, and deeply, of things which seldom come within the scope of ordinary life. Much Killing brings ine time, no longer triumph, but a revulsion of feeling. — Grey Owl

I was not I, I was nothing - and that seemed to me quite marvelous. — Paulo Coelho

I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that. If the cities feel a little more natural, people like to live there more rather than moving out and dividing up another piece of land that shouldn't be touched. — Stone Gossard

Whatever the weather I went out and wandered, and now I wandered with K.; I introduced him to my solitude and he deepened it without disturbance. — Garth Greenwell

I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on. — Tara Brach

I'm a gym rat, I have to admit. I live in the gym, and now that I don't have to get beat up for a living, I can truly enjoy taking care of myself without worrying about breaking my leg or getting paralyzed. — Thomas Jones