"Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else."

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Source : Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.155, Oneworld Publications

Richard Adams

#Thinking Quotes #Survival Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Women are weak, but mothers are strong.”
“Happy 110th birthday to Frank Zamboni, who left us in 1988 but still resurfaces periodically.”
“You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.”
“If you can't do something smart, do something right.”
“If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.”
“A hairdresser holds a trusted place in a woman's life”
“But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in this world sing and dance in the sunlight.”

Source : Wang Anyi (2008). “The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai”, p.199, Columbia University Press
“Three of them got killed. My mother was shot in the knee. But by God's grace, she's still alive.”

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