"For the long-limbed trees and watery landscape of Vancouver Island, read Hundreds and Thousands. Setting aside, who can resist a woman who lived in a caravan in Goldstream Park with a pack of dogs and a monkey and shunned the human race except to attend her own art openings? Only a genius could both paint and write my/her home."

-- Marjorie Celona

#Dog Quotes #Art Quotes #Home Quotes

“It appears that the ground of being which underlies and sustains us despite our various inadequate and conflicting stories must be extremely tolerant, generous, and forgiving. All things considered, it wouldn't hurt if we were, too.”
“Love never ends or fails. Love never ends. Everything must be based on love - the relation between two friends, my ministry, my service; the church services in every field must be based on love. Why? Because God is Love.”
“There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children”
“Music does not exist in isolation, it is rooted in the political, the social, the cultural. We need to remember this at all times, and especially in these times! Our voices have never been so very critical.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.”

Source : "Mark McKinnon: An Unfair Attack on Mitt Romney's NAACP Speech" by Mark McKinnon, www.thedailybeast.com. July 14, 2012.
“Making mistakes is a way of taking action.”
“Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage.”

Source : "History of the Peloponnesian War".
“Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknown before!”

Source : Robert Blair (1851). “The Grave: A Poem”, p.37

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