"When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay."

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Source : Ruth Stout (2011). “Gardening Without Work: For the Aging, the Busy & the Indolent”, p.26, Norton Creek Press

Ruth Stout

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“You talk as long as you are listened to.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“I like people's attitudes more than fashion or beauty or whatever it is.”

Source : "Exclusive: See Kat Dennings Transform Into Her Beauty Icons". Interview with Jessica Baker, www.byrdie.co.uk. June 29, 2015.
“It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise”
“There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.”
“One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.”

Source : "Aubrey O’Day: ‘Last night I was stolen by a hawk’". PopWrap interview, pagesix.com. October 22, 2009.
“Examine your own mental attitudes. Become your own therapist.”
“Research indicates that once an uncommitted couple gets involved in sexual intercourse, the relationship usually begins to end. They have reached the superficial end of the physical aspects of the relationship, and they have no particularly compelling reason to explore its depths.”

Source : Chip Ingram (2014). “Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships: God's Prescription for Enhancing Your Love Life”, p.75, Baker Books
“An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair.”

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