M Jourdain Quotes & Sayings

A conscience free from guilt leads to tranquility of the mind, and only a tranquil mind can see things as they truly are. — Bohdi Sanders

One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in. — Francis Jourdain

I often think of those marvelous weeks spent in the Waddington Range in 1950. 2 new routes on the northern side of the peak and the 3rd ascent of the mountain as well. Waddington is one of the more beautiful peaks in all of Canada and it's only 175 miles north of Vancouver. B.C.!! — Allen Steck

She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her. — Alice Walker

The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of the visible and invisible world - to the profound longing for the latter, coupled with the feeling of the sweet necessity for the former, we owe all sound and logical systems of philosophy, truly based on the immutable principles of our nature, just as from the same source arise the most senseless enthusiasms. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point. — Lauren Oliver

I'm tired of being inside my head. I want to live out here, with you. — Colleen McCarty

Planning. Short-term memory. Attention. At first glance, these three frontal lobe functions can seem like diverse activities that just happen to be packed into the same brain region. But on closer inspection it turns out that they are facets of the same basic phenomenon of 'restraint'. Planning restrains our brains from wandering from a chosen path of activity. Short-term memory retrains sensory cortex from moving on to different imagery. Attention constrains the kind of sensory data admitted to sensory cortex. — Robert Jourdain

Only the possibility of carrying out a dream makes our life worth living. — Paulo Coelho