"Little things. The thought of losing them makes them unbearably dear ... I only think of the sweetness. Simple things. The quarter moon, the taste of an orange. The smell of the pages of a new book."

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Source : Patricia Gaffney (2009). “The Saving Graces: A Novel”, p.128, Harper Collins

Patricia Gaffney

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“Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.”
“A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.”
“Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.”
“Zen is like soap. First you wash with it, and then you wash off the soap.”
“Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the shame of being thought poor--it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves.”

Source : William Cobbett (2016). “Advice to Young Men - And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.”, p.39, Read Books Ltd
“I am constantly amazed at their support over the years.”
“Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.”
“Detachment is the ultimate pleasure.”

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