"And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea â€” some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wildâ€”they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you."

-- Mary Oliver

#Summer Quotes #Thoughtful Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about talking about the moral status of animals, when we are killing and eating them for no reason whatsoever.”
“I think what happened in the last 10 or 15 years in the art market is that all the players - and that includes artists, dealers, art advisors, everyone - basically became dealers. We've had old-school collectors morph into speculators, flipping works. We've seen auction houses buying works directly from artists or from sleazy middlemen. The last step before the crash was the artists themselves supplying the auction houses. Dealing themselves, you know? The art world is as unregulated as any financial market there is.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone.”
“Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.”
“He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.”

Source : Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (2013). “Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study”, p.156, Butterworth-Heinemann
“It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men: But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.”

Source : Joyce Kilmer (1917). “Main Street, and Other Poems”
“Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.”
“I think change is always scary but also always good.”

Source : Source: ftw.usatoday.com

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