"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."

-- James Bryce

#Book Quotes #Environment Quotes

“In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things”
“I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.”
“Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.”

Source : Julian of Norwich (2013). “SHOWING OF LOVE”, p.117, Lulu.com
“If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.”
“I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think of science as a mechanical record of facts, and it is wrong to think of the arts as remote and private fancies. What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind.”
“Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.”
“There was another time when Mike was really foul mood and we had to make a pit stop so he could use a porta potty. Mike went to use the porta potty and we were waiting inside the RV. It was joeâ€™s idea, but we all got out and started to rock the thing back and forth. We didnâ€™t mean to, but we ended up tipping the porta potty over while Mike was in it! Then we attacked him with air freshener”
“I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves.”

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