"A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans."

-- Aldo Leopold

#Rivers Quotes #Broken Quotes #Sun Quotes

“Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.”
“I love knowing that I am simultaneously as big as the universe and yet merely a heap of star dust.”

Source : Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.159, Penguin
“Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away.”
“Why we are here is an impenetrable question.”
“Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.”
“Life is filled with potential that is truly unfathomable. At last we are coming to see the enormous power it possesses. That is why we must never write anyone off. In particular, we mustnâ€™t put boundaries on our own potential. In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves.”
“I love girls when I never know what there going to do next or what they're going to say.”
“I was at a small private school in London. I wasn't very academic. My dad said to me, 'OK, you might as well leave, since you're not working very hard'. When I told I him wanted to stay on for my A-levels, he said I'd have to pay my own fees, then he'd pay me back if I got good grades.”

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