How doe we define the energy of thought versus the energy of action.
Meg Rosoff, Just in Case.
“Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.”
“He was a peculiar sight. Tears rolling down his face, shouting to drown the sound of the singing rabbit; he said he needed help, pointed to a chicken, handed over some money, grabbed his parcel and...”
“I'm sorry I started all this by trying to fly and I'd take it back if I could but I can't, so please think of it from my point of view: if you die I will have a dead brother and it will be me inste...”
“A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.”
“In the meantime, Charlie learnt to fly. Dorothea fell in love. Peter discovered a new star. And a great number of things happened to Justin. Hundreds of millions of ordinary, unexpected, and occasi...”
“Where's your dog?" Peter's voice came from within the gushing stream of water. Justin thought he must have misheard."Pardon?""Your dog.""Yes?""Isn't he with you today?" Justin looked at Peter."Ha b...”
“Only super-efforts count.”
“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.”
“That is what a well-guarded prayer life can reveal about us, that our trust is not in ourselves but in seeking God's strength for what we do. Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer under...”
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
“If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of h...”
“Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhrt mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.”