"As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Animal Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Plant Quotes

“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”
“One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.”

Source : "Snow Day" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2011.
“Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject.”
“I'm always trying to make the music sexier with every album, every tour. I just try to inch my way toward just a little sexier. I know it's tough for me.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“When you catch an adjective, kill it.”
“It's crazy how your mind works because you can receive hundreds and thousands of all these love posts and all this good affirmation on Instagram or Twitter. And then that one person writes one thing that dims your light but that's the thing you can't let it dim your light, because what I've realized - it's really not your problem, it's theirs.”

Source : "Danielle Brooks, Gabourey Sidibe and More Dance in Lingerie to Prove 'This Body Is Beautiful'". Interview with Colleen Kratofil, people.com. October 04, 2016.
“Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself”
“But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing. Those feelings, they'd been there all along. All that time. I had to face it.”

Source : Jenny Han (2012). “We'll Always Have Summer”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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