"If you're gonna fret, fret over something you can change. Then stop fretting and do something about it."

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Source : Kimberly Willis Holt (2011). “My Louisiana Sky”, p.34, Macmillan

Kimberly Willis Holt

“The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding”
“In my travels, I have encountered cranes on three continents.”
“When a caterpillar eats a leaf, then a thrush eats the caterpillar, or when a hawk eats the thrush only 5 to 20% of usable energy is transferred from one level to the next. ... Thus herbivores will account for a much smaller fraction of the biomass [than plants] and the carnivores for a still smaller fraction.”
“I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All she has had and will have. It seems to her that life is like gathering berries into an apron with a hole. Why do we keep on? Because the berries are beautiful, and we must eat to survive. We catch what we can. We walk past what we lose for the promise of more, just ahead.”

Source : Elizabeth Berg (2009). “Home Safe: A Novel”, p.237, Random House
“Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.”

Source : Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”
“What a lot of people don't understand is that when you change your thinking, when you accept different concepts, then life mirrors those for you. If you can get the concept that you're worthy and loveable and that you deserve to have a better life, life starts bringing those opportunities to you, because that's your belief system.”
“Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.”

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