"Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $371.49 each."

-- Andy Rooney

#Night Quotes #Zucchini Quotes #Doors Quotes

“When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids havent left me.”
“I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.”
“How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.207, Rowman & Littlefield
“Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.”
“There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.”
“The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential.”
“We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.”
“The mind is like dishwater, my friend.Â When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see.Â But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.”

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