"Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it."

-- Karen Joy Fowler

#Voice Quotes #Water Quotes #Owl Quotes

“Despite what people think of cowboys, they take pride in how they look, and that look is important to them.”
“The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.”
“Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.”

Source : Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.41, Bantam
“Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential.”
“And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.”
“Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.”
“It was just weird. Once you get the ball and you get in a situation, it's like haywire, everything goes crazy, and everybody's running around. You don't know who to pass it to or what to do. So Coach said just slow down and just make the right play. I tried to get the best look I could at the basket.”
“Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles on human life, which makes the desert blossom as the rose, and which glorifies the common things and common ways of earth. It made of this, the angel of life, a shape of sin and darkness ... Even in the unions which it reluctantly permitted, it degraded and dwarfed the passion which it could not entirely exclude, and permitted it coarsely to exist for the mere necessity of procreation.”

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