"You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of……" — Susan Vreeland
"You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life."
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Susan Vreeland
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11 Quotes by Susan Vreeland
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What the world calls failure, I call learning.
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Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.
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I remember being disappointed when Papa had shown me Caravaggio's Judith. She was completely passive while she was sawing through…
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Look long enough, out or in, and you’ll be glad you are who you are.
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God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity.…
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That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its…
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It was strange: When you reduced even a fledgling love affair to its essentials--I loved her, she maybe loved me,…
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Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.
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If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even…
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He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch…
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.
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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action…
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are…
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
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