"Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood."

-- Janet Frame

#Needs Quotes #Division Quotes #Helping Quotes

“I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.”
“We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.”

Source : Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “The Careful Use of Compliments”, p.12, Anchor
“Where I once found it safer to stay in the background... I've stepped from the shadows into the spotlight.”
“We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.”

Source : YouTube Channel "R2Agent"/"Randy Pausch addressing the CMU 2008 graduating class", www.youtube.com. May 19, 2008.
“Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces, anyway.”
“We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.”
“The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.”
“The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.”

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