"We never know how strongly we cling to objects until they are taken away, and he who thinks htat he is attached to nothing, is frequently grandly mistaken, being bound to a thousand things, unknown to himself."

-- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

#Taken Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Thousand Quotes

“Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.”
“Gun control is not the answer to stop crimes committed with firearms,”
“What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense â€” none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.”

Source : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hyman George Rickover (1982). “Economics of Defense Policy: Adm. H.G. Rickover : Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session”
“I actually don't think it matters how early or late you are as long as you hit critical mass.”
“There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.”
“Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.”
“The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.”
“Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.”

Source : Susanna Kearsley (2011). “The Rose Garden”, p.34, Allison & Busby

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