"It occurs to me one evening as I'm feeding the birds that all I did was put two birds in the aviary, some food and water and nothing else and now there are six of them. I know this is perfectly natural, it's one of the things life is all about, but to have it happen in my bedroom, under my own eyes, is magic."

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Source : William Wharton (1980). “Birdy”, Avon Books

William Wharton

#Eye Quotes #Two Quotes #Water Quotes

“I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer.”
“If life is a game, then the people who play in center with their own style only make the real name; but for others the aim is just the same for they do anything from comment, copy, criticize, cover or cheer by being anywhere.”
“Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.”

Source : Attributed to Rommel‎'s "Infanterie Greift An" ("Infantry Attacks") (1937), in "World War II: The Definitive Visual History: from Blitzkrieg to the Atom Bomb" by Richard Holmes, p. 128, 2009.
“Step into the light. Unseen forces are cheering you on.”
“We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions... We are near a tipping point, a point of no return, beyond which the built in momentum and feedbacks will carry us to levels of climate change with staggering consequences for humanity and all of the residents of this planet.”
“True patience is grounded in wisdom and compassion.”

Source : Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.109, Penguin
“As long as there is life there is hope.”

Source : Ruth Minsky Sender (2016). “The Cage”, p.206, Simon and Schuster
“How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!”

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