"We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace."

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Source : Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”

Nelly Sachs

#Mother Quotes #Heart Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.”
“I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.”
“I wouldn't say I was organised at all. I just have to prioritise. Is it more important for them to be organised, or to have their dinner, do you know what I mean?”
“People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.”
“The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.”

Source : Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.36, Random House
“We are headed to a radically new Earth, at least from our perspective. But from the planet's perspective, this is nothing new. As the geologist Peter Ward is fond of pointing out, we are actually heading back to a time kind of like the Miocene. The Miocene ended about 5.5 million years ago, and it was the last time that the planet had no icecaps.”
“The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.”
“Change the problem by changing your mind.”

Source : Ken MacLeod (2012). “Intrusion”, p.13, Hachette UK

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