"Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about."

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Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “Molly Make-Believe”, p.7, The Floating Press

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#Night Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Paper Quotes

“If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.”
“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
“I enjoy what Twitter is because I can really connect with the fans and it's a great way to share information with them and it's also a great way to entertain. I like being able to put a smile on people's faces and letting them know what I'm doing.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I trust that no loving thought goes unnoticed, even when I do not see immediate gratitude or behavior changes in the other person.”

Source : Lee L. Jampolsky (2011). “Walking Through Walls: Practical Spirituality in an Impractical World”, p.91, Celestial Arts
“I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful desolation came upon her face that I perceived she was one of those creatures that are not the playthings of Time. For her he had died only yesterday. And, by Jove! the impression was so powerful that for me, too, he seemed to have died only yesterday -- nay, this very minute. I saw her and him in the same instant of time -- his death and her sorrow -- I saw her sorrow in the very moment of his death. Do you understand? I saw them together -- I heard them together.”
“Yes,â€ said Mamma, â€œthis is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.”
“We get up in the morning.Â We do our best.Â Nothing else matters.”
“The solar system is off center and consequently man is too ...”

Source : Harlow Shapley (1969). “Through rugged ways to the stars”

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