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Carl Safina

"For each of us, then, the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision it whole, seek to know it truly, and undertake-with our minds, hearts and hands-to restore its abundance. It is said that where there's life there's hope, and so no place can inspire us with more hopefulness than that great, life-making sea-that singular, wondrous ocean covering the blue planet."

Source : Carl Safina (2010). “Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas”, p.440, Macmillan

Carl Safina

#Ocean Quotes #Heart Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible.”
“Strong people don't put others down. they lift them up.”
“This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.”
“When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.”
“My parents had irrational fears of Mexico and assumed that once you crossed the border, drug runners made you swallow a ***** balloon and then within the hour you were in a bathtub full of ice and they were harvesting your kidneys.”

Source : Justin Halpern (2010). “Shit My Dad Says”, p.111, Pan Macmillan
“Hello from the gutters of NYC, which is filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine,and blood. Hello from the sewers of NYC which swallow up these delicacies when they are washed away by the sweeper trucks.”
“Usually, you don't really end up lifelong buddies with your co-stars.”

Source : Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2012.
“Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and Iâ€™ll stop my half-assed church-going ways. You got me past a pack of Strigoi tonight. I mean, trapping that one between the doors really shouldn't have worked, so clearly you're on board. Let me get out of here, and Iâ€™ll...I donâ€™t know. Donate Adrianâ€™s money to the poor. Get baptized. Join a convent. Well, no. Not that last one.”

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