"A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time."

-- Edward Abbey

#Joy Quotes #Giants Quotes #Thirst Quotes

“Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends.”
“We are powerful because we have survived”
“Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.”
“I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.”
“There is a need for more economic growth, for more job growth. But there is a need in some people for them to recognize that they have a role in making these problems better. And we can't - we can't ignore that.”
“Stop sketching. Start building.”
“We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives. We find true refuge whenever we recognize the silent space of awareness behind all our busy doing and striving. We find refuge whenever our hearts open with tenderness and love. We find refuge whenever we connect with the innate clarity and intelligence of our true nature.”
“The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.”

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