"Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. 'I feel good here': the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice."

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Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.108, Univ of California Press

Michel de Certeau

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“Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault from pollution, stress, contaminated food and age-related diseases as our lifespans increase.”

Source : "TEDMED: Can Mushrooms Help the Immune System Fight Cancer? Interview With Paul Stamets, Mycologist". Interview with Patricia Fitzgerald, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 02, 2011.
“This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.”
“It's not always the case that Muslims have been theocrats.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.”
“I have signed a pact with life: we will not get in each other's way”

Source : Janusz Korczak (1980). “The Ghetto Years, 1939-1942”
“It is for us to begin. If we take one step towards the Lord, he takes ten towards us -- he who saw the prodigal son while he was at a distance, and had compassion and ran and embraced him.”
“I almost canâ€™t believe Iâ€™m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships donâ€™t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.”
“Realizing you're not anything special to the kids is always a great sort of reminder that you're just a regular person. A regular, embarrassing old mom.”

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