"Since the choice of what we curl up with is often crucial for our solace and sanity, we need to learn how to nurture the talent of selection. Book browsing is a meditative art...Books are as essential as breathing."

-- Sarah Ban Breathnach

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“We are with Europe but not of it. We are linked, not combined. We are interested and associated, not absorbed. And should European statesmen address us in the words that were used of old - Shall I speak for thee to the King or the Captain of the Host? - we should reply with the Shunamite woman: "Nay sir, for we dwell among our own people".”
“It is our very search, our lust for the miraculous and magical, that hides from us the truth that simply to be, simply to know I am, is already the miracle that we seek. Everything, as it is, is perfect, but you must stop seeing it as if in a mirror, as if in a dream.”
“There is no logical reason why girls shouldn't play baseball. It's not all that tough.”
“There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of â€˜Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).”
“Innovations never happen as planned.”

Source : Gifford Pinchot (1986). “Intrapreneuring: why you don't have to leave the corporation to become an entrepreneur”, HarperCollins
“The greatest gift you can give someone is the space to be his or herself, without the threat of you leaving.”
“The grape gains its purple tinge by looking at another grape. [Lat., Uvaque conspecta livorem ducit ab uva.]”
“Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.”

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