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Penelope Lively

"The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and plate-glass tower-block, picked a handful of eucalyptus leaves from a branch, crushed them in my hand, smelt, and tears came to my eyes. Sixty-seven-year-old Claudia, on a pavement awash with packaged American matrons, crying not in grief but in wonder that nothing is ever lost, that everything can be retrieved, that a lifetime is not linear but instant. That, inside the head, everything happens at once."

-- Penelope Lively

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“How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.”
“Wrestlers are a bunch of wanna-be football players.”
“Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 02, 2016
“Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by this dynamic. One's own fear and sense of limitation is avoided by enlarging oneself and one's sphere of control. There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.”
“The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.”
“Bottom Line: Business is all about Building Relationships! If you want to make More Money and Enjoy More Lifestyle, You Have to Build Better Relationships than the Next Person! Send Out Cards helps to do that both personally and professionally! It's the first company I have ever endorsed because it fits perfectly with my Philosophy! You would have to be Crazy not to use it!”
“Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is borne along by his own power and of his own volition. Every movement made by the drowned man - indeed, every act and word that issue from him - comes from the water, not from him... The saints are like this. They have died before death.”
“What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.”

Source : Attributed to Margaret Mead in "Teaching Music Through Performance In Band, Volume 3" edited by Larry Blocher, Eugene Corporon, Ray Cramer, Tim Lautzeheiser, and others (p. 13), 2000.

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