"So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because when you think you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in someone else, you don't look for the reasons - like bad timing or a negative bank balance - that might keep it out of your life. You commit to being strong enough to build your life around it, no matter what. In doing so, you begin to become the thing you admire."

-- Gwen Cooper

#Cute Quotes #Sweet Quotes #Strong Quotes

“We should not feel separate from nature, we are a part of it. We need to cover our footprints.”
“The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure I'm lonely I'm a failure I'm lonely) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras.”
“However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.”

Source : Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.49, Basic Books
“hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.”
“I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.”
“When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient.”

Source : "Rocking the Boat". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2013.
“How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.”
“The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.”

Source : Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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