"It is a great, a pleasant thing to have a friend with whom to walk, untroubled, through the woods, by the stream, saying nothing, at peace--the heart all clean and quiet and empty, ready for the spirit that may choose to be its guest."

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Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”

Catherine Drinker Bowen

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“I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.”

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“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.”
“This is a very special Greek kind of socialist, all the social democratic parties in Europe are against this idea and I think that the dividing line today in the Greek political system is not the centre right or socialist, the real dividing line is between those parties and those political forces who really believe that Greece should stay in the Eurozone and make the efforts and change, and make the reforms and change the old and Mr Tsipras who is really resisting any kind of change in Greece.”

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“Whether in the workplace or in personal relationships, success belongs to those who are willing to take responsibility for attaining their desires-those who respond to life actively rather than passively.”
“Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.”
“The best way to experience power (or anything) is to give it away. Make someone else powerful and you become twice as powerful as you were before. Make someone else loved and you become twice as loved. Make someone else feel good and you feel twice as good. It doesn't get any better than this. And it's all so...simple.”
“There are many roads that lead to hell, but only one way to go to heaven.”
“I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.”

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