"Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget."

-- Christina Rossetti

#Death Quotes #Dying Quotes #Green Quotes

“Sometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.”

Source : Source: www.finalcall.com
“Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. The idealist is the capitalist on whose resources multitudes are maintained life long. Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks, thus carrying forward all human endeavors to their issues.”
“If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business.”
“I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go.”

Source : Minnie Bruce Pratt (2003). “The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems”
“The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.”
“Certainty and similar states of â€˜knowing what we knowâ€™ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.”

Source : Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.7, Macmillan
“It is in the world of ideas and in the relation of his brain to the universe itself that the superiority of Man lies. The rise of Man may justly be described as an adventure in ideas.”
“Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.”

Source : "The art of suffering" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2002.

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