"We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can't entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove them before they do much harm."

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Source : Phillip Cary (2010). “Good News for Anxious Christians: 10 Practical Things You Don't Have to Do”, p.130, Brazos Press

Phillip Cary

#Weed Quotes #Garden Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“We don't need to explain our love. We only need to show it.”
“Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.”
“Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.”
“My father would say, 'Play a scale,' and I'd play one and he'd say, 'What about the rest? There must be one above,' so we'd figure them out. I'd start the scale on the root of the chord and I'd go as far as my hand would reach without going out of position, say, five frets, and then I'd go all the way back. So when ! practised I'd start right away on scales. As well as the usual ones, I'd play whole tone scales, diminished, dominant sevenths, and chromatic scales. Every chord form, all the way up, and this took an hour.”
“The spirit is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.”
“As a kid, I loved Godot because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, its much more resonant.”
“The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear.”
“To be honest, I was unaware of the huge frat-rap scene that was taking over the blogosphere until I found myself right in the middle of it. But there are really a ton of talented dudes out there doing this, and I'm just having a great time making music and being a part of it all.”

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