"If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree cannot find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time."

-- Charles Fort

#Tree Quotes #Growth Quotes #Foundation Quotes

“We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it's somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life.”

Source : Colleen Hoover (2014). “Maybe Someday”, p.291, Simon and Schuster
“That night I looked up at those same stars, but I didn't want any of those things. I didn't want Egypt, or France, or far-flung destinations. I just wanted to go back to my life from my childhood, just to visit it, and touch it, and to convince myself that yes, it had been real.”
“We see clear evidence repeated in many studies that higher intake of trans fats is associated with higher risk of heart disease, and with many other conditions, such as diabetes and infertility.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“When markets go down, opportunities go up for smart real estate investors. I would much rather play the downturn than the upturn.”
“Along the way, I've had different advice from different music producers. I've been told to tone it down, that the quiet parts of my voice are appealing and there's harshness to the loud part of my voice.”
“When I was younger, I had big visions of changing the world.”
“Boondocks' is simply the Tagalog word for mountains.”

Source : Sharyn McCrumb (2010). “The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel”, p.52, Macmillan
“Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.”

Source : Patricia A. McKillip (2015). “Patricia McKillip SF Gateway Omnibus Volume One: In the Forests of Serre, Alphabet of Thorn, The Bell at Sealey Head”, p.56, Hachette UK

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