"A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy."

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Source : Rumer Godden (1984). “China Court”

Rumer Godden

#Gratitude Quotes #Cheer Quotes #Garden Quotes

“We cannot expect to be happy always ... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.”

Source : Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “Andersen's Fairy Tales and Stories: Fairy Tales, Folktales Collections”, p.342, 谷月社
“Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.”
“All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.”
“To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.”
“There's more roles now to fill since Trump's in. There's this refusal of power. I think progressives are actually literally uncomfortable with the exercise of power, because of what you learn. When you're too educated you understand the total disconnect of the exercise of power.”

Source : Source: motherboard.vice.com
“This, then, is the truth of the discourse of universal human rights: the Wall separating those covered by the umbrella of Human Rights and those excluded from its protective cover. Any reference to universal human rights as an 'unfinished project' to be gradually extended to all people is here a vain ideological chimera - and, faced with this prospect, do we, in the West, have any right to condemn the excluded when they use any means, inclusive of terror, to fight their exclusion?”
“A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.”
“I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes me feel good to keep my home as a comfortable place.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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