"How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose."

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Source : 'The Garden' (1681) st. 1

Andrew Marvell

#Winning Quotes #Men Quotes #Tree Quotes

“A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.”
“The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see a pattern unfold.”
“The agentive mind is not only active in nature, but it seeks out dialogue and discourse with other active minds. And it is through this dialogic, discursive process that we come to know the Other and his points of view, his stories. We learn an enormous amount not only about the world but about ourselves by discourse with Others.”

Source : Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.93, Harvard University Press
“To larger sight, the rim of shadow is the line of light.”
“At some moments, you feel attracted to someone of the same sex, even if it's not sexual. You just want to be like him.”
“It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.”
“It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.”
“What causes [fragmentation] if not a need to act that specializes us and limits us to the horizon of a particular activity? Even if it turns out to be for the general interest (which generally isn't true), the activity that subordinates each of our aspects to a specific result suppresses our being as an entirety. Whoever acts substitutes a particular end for what he or she is, as a total being.”

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