"We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved."

-- Paul Morley

#Mother Quotes #Flower Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.”
“The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with the potential for some great change or I don't mind if an author torments his protagonist, but I do expect a decent payoff in the end.”
“The battle is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, and the brave. A small, disciplined militia can not only hold out against a larger force, but drive it back, because what they're fighting for rightfully belongs to them.”
“For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.”
“I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other.”

Source : Gerald Asher (2012). “A Carafe of Red”, p.146, Univ of California Press
“Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief in God by organizing together as a community to do good. Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.”
“Algorithms dont do a good job of detecting their own flaws.”
“You've got to find the force inside you.”

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