"Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you."

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Source : Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.38, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

Peace Pilgrim

#Smile Quotes #Mirrors Quotes #Life Is Like Quotes

“The preacher asked her and she said I do. The preacher asked me, and she said yes he does, too.”

Source : Song: Wife
“The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.”
“True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.”
“On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. "How old is this ruin?" someone asked a guide. "Forty-two years," said Lange.”

Source : "A Dictionary of New Zealand Political Quotations", (p. 94), 2000.
“I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.”
“If you are engaging rationality, you are already engaging a place that makes you unavailable. Only when I recognize that inspiration has announced itself to my availability will I then say I need to use my mind to calculate exposure, my emotions to position myself and arrange a configuration of shapes that need to come into being, my body to put it all in place because we have been given a message and it has come through inspiration through being available.'”
“Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.”

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