Racecourse Berkshire Quotes & Sayings

The fact that everyone doesn't react in exactly the same way to the same situation implies that our emotions are created within us, based on our past experiences. — Minx M.

I will have no man in my boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale." By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
(moby dick chap 26 p112) — Herman Melville

At times, we need to let our choices die, for us to get a better direction in life. — Sunday Adelaja

During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all. — Ricky Martin

It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer. — Leslie Banks

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside. — Samuel Johnson

Herd! Your first duty is to get rid of your shepherd! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes. — Sophia Amoruso

For a moment I was filled with the sensation of white snow against black water. The way the whiteness erases all the detail around a lake or a river in the forest so that the difference between land and water is absolute, and the water lies there as a deeply alien entity, a black hole in the world. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Happiness is a mental habit, a mental attitude, and if it is not learned and practiced in the present it is never experienced. It cannot be made contingent upon solving some external problem. When one problem is solved, another appears to take its place. Life is a series of problems. If you are to be happy at all, you must be happy - period! Not happy "because of". — Maxwell Maltz

I think you're a fairy tale. I think you're magical, and brave, and exquisite. And I hope you'll let me be in your story. — Laini Taylor