Receding Gum Quotes & Sayings

One gains courage from the one in front of her and moves forward a few steps, passing her by just a little. Now the one farthest back gains courage from the one in front and moves forward until she, in turn, is the leader. And so in this way, taking courage from one another, they advance, as a group, towards the strange thing in front of them. — Lydia Davis

They passed a law that said I couldn't put my hands in my pockets. Do you know why? Because they would become concealed weapons. I can kill a man with these hands. — David Wong

There was always something new to be seen in the unchanging night sky. — Fritz Leiber

Zen is the study of mind in all of its manifestations. The purpose of Zen is to be happy. — Frederick Lenz

This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart. — Bill Hicks

I've already warned you that the simplest ideas are the hardest to understand; I'll now add that they are also the hardest to explain. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Happy the man ... with a natural gift
for practising the right one [art] from the start
poetry, say, or fishing; whose nights are dreamless;
whose deep-sunk panoramas rise and pass
like daylight through the rod's eye or the nib's eye. — Seamus Heaney

Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank. — Simon Sinek