"It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends."

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Cynthia Rylant

#Inspiring Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Lost Quotes

“These are 8- and 12-year-old kids. It doesn't matter how they got here. It is time to show a little compassion”
“It would make me feel that creative art has a chance in this crazy world that we all live in.”

Source : Jimmy Carl Black Interview by Stephen Moore in Munich, Germany, www.stevemoorebooks.com. March 29, 2000.
“Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, 'I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.' That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them.”
“Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the mind's processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.”
“The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The anorexic is an analog to the ideologue, who is likewise devoid of common sense, independent ego, culture, intuitive intelligence, etc.: all the ideologue has to orient himself by is the formalist or abstractivist directives inlaid in modern mass-culture. Both are forms of the True Believer, minds in whom factors of self-active life are reduced to negligibility and pathos reigns.”
“I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.”
“It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to puzzle out the ways of doing it.”

Source : Gertrude Jekyll (1919). “Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden”
“I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live.”

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