"Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it."

“To garden is a solitary act.”

Source : Michelle Cliff (1980). “Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise”

“When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?”

“How can the physique be braced if no fresh breath from the outer world is suffered to permeate the languid, enervating air of thedrawing-room? How can the grasp of the mind be vigorous, without action? Daughters of inherited wealth, or accumulated labor! the wide door of philanthropy is open peculiarly to you! Your life-work lies beyond your threshold: your wealth has placed you above the sorrowful struggle for daily bread which takes up the whole time of so many of your brothers and sisters. You are the almoners of God. A double accountability is yours.”

“I've played hockey most my life and I've never been badly injured...Three weeks into curling I've got bone chips in both my elbows. I still can't lean on a table. I've even got curling injuries, believe it or not, just from falling on my arse.”

“As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.”

Source : Ross Macdonald (2011). “The Zebra-Striped Hearse”, p.9, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

“There isn't an entrepreneur or a scientific pioneer who hasn't had failures. And if we don't rear children who are comfortable taking risks, we won't have successes.”

Source : Source: www.wbur.org

“When you're surfing you're not thinking about where you parked the car or what you're going to do when you grow up or what you're going to buy when you've got lots of money. You know, you're just there. You're in the moment. And I think in a contemporary world, that's a rare privilege.”

“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.”