"I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#And Love Quotes #Want Quotes #Eowyn Quotes

“A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.”
“When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.”
“Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.”
“And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them.”
“life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.”

Source : Commencement Speech at Connecticut College, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.
“The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.”
“The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their uselessness, it will not grudge to any unfamiliar conception its moment of full and friendly attention, hoping to expand rather than to minimize what small core of usefulness it may happen to contain.”
“I figured I had seconds, maybe minutes to live.”

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