"I have these obsessions that I do not completely understand, with the deep mark, with the ruptured surface, with scars and traces, traces that human beings are leaving on the earth. It is not a comment on the environment... it is metaphysical."

-- Sophie Ristelhueber

#Leaving Quotes #Earth Quotes #Scar Quotes

“I drank from the bottle again and it was a scary plunge because I always wanted to take too much. It hurt, but it was also impressive, like being in the hands of a bigger force. And because of that, a relief.”
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
“I just feel like if I do good work, then people should respect me for the work I do.”
“Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.”

Source : Sherwood Smith (2009). “King's Shield: Book Three of Inda”, p.432, Penguin
“You will learn more about the people you work with in three minutes by asking them what they do for nothing, than by working with them for three years in the same team”
“Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!”
“The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.”

Source : Bruce Barton (1959). “The Man and the Book Nobody Knows”
“For the will and not the gift makes the giver.”

Source : "Nathan der Weise" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, I. 5, 1779.

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