Cities Spaces Places Quotes

#1. The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.

Enrique Penalosa

#2. The imagination offers up ideal visions of experiences which then leave us disappointed when the visions don't come true.

David Brooks

#3. Think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. There was that all-pervasive evening scent of cut grass and jasmine.

William Dalrymple

#5. Scientists estimate that the Siberian permafrost holds the remains of 150 million mammoths - or about 8 million more than the 142 million Russians aboveground in Russia today.

Ian Frazier

#6. One has not the alternative of speaking of London as a whole, for the simple reason that there is no such thing as the whole of it. It is immeasurable - embracing arms never meet. Rather it is a collection of many wholes, and of which of them is it most important to speak?

Henry James

#7. If you don't have a healthy connection to your true self you may feel afraid of what your intuition could reveal.

Catherine Carrigan

#8. Great moves of God are usually preceded by simple acts of obedience.

Steven Furtick

#9. Then we're on the same page. Same paragraph, same sentence," I snapped. "Same bloody word," he agreed flatly.

Karen Marie Moning

#10. You never know what show is going to change your life.

Brion James

#11. It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.

Donald Miller

#12. Make investments with your heart not just your wallet.

E'yen A. Gardner

#13. When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one purpose only: you need to change everything and move forward.

Paulo Coelho

#14. And probably every object that we make room for in our life immediately structures that life - the important thing, don't you agree, is to actually acknowledge and experience this fact.

Daniel Robberechts

#15. Jesus Christ lives in all people. We are citizens of one world.

Lailah Gifty Akita