"It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself."

-- Alice Walker

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“Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.”
“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
“An entrepreneur... is a person of action, one who possesses an unnatural overload of two attributes: optimism and determination. Because entrepreneurs are optimistic, they don't see barriers; because they're determined, they never quit. Individuals who posses extreme amounts of optimism and determination get things done.”
“It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.”
“As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.”
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.”

Source : "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.
“It's not the job of this town to make me feel happy. It's not this townÂ´s fault that I don't feel I fit in. It doesn't matter where you are in the world, because it's about where you are in your head. It's about the other world I inhabit. The world of dreams, hope, imagination, and memories. I'm happy up here, and because of that I'm happy up there too”
“A man will turn over half a library to make one book.”

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