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“Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.”
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“I think there's so much good in the worst of us, and so many of the worst of us get the best of us, that the rest of us aren't even worth talking about.”
Source : "Say Good Night, Gracie!". Book by Susan Sackett and Cheryl Blyt, 1986.
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“Some of the memories were not clear---dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I'd seen his face... the way it felt when he'd held me in the meadow... the sound of his voice through the darkness of my faltering consciousness when he'd save me from James... his face as he waited under a canopy of flowers to marry me... every precious moment on the island... his cold hands touching our baby through my skin...”
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“Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.”
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“Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that.”
Source : "The Blue Economy 3.0: The Marriage of Science, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Creates a New Business Model That Transforms Society". Book by Gunter Pauli, 2017.
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“The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.”
Source : Jane Wilson-Howarth (2012). “A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas”, p.375, Bradt Travel Guides
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“My work isn't about form. It's about seeing. I'm excited about seeing things, and I'm interested in the way I think other people see things.”
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“In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.”
Source : Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.72, Sarah Orne Jewett