"It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else."

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Source : Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.4, Macmillan

Catherynne M. Valente

#Reading Quotes #Heart Quotes #Growth Quotes

“I feel that I'm in on the ground floor of something that human beings will be concentrating on for the next 1,000 years-if we don't destroy ourselves in the meantime. It's possible that 50 years from now we're going to end up out of this solar system, batting around the universe, at least within our galaxy, investigating other stars and other systems.”
“When did it become the law of the land that the Supreme Court has the final say on anything? They cannot have the final say on anything. The American people have the final say on anything.”
“Small is not beautiful unless small is skilled and dedicated.”

Source : Gene Logsdon (2000). “Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream”, p.44, Chelsea Green Publishing
“He couldn't undo the past, nor could he know how he had already altered the future. But that didn't matter. What he really cared about was captured in the warmth of their interlaced fingers. What mattered was the life the two of them made together now.”
“The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick.”
“Somehow difficulties are easier to endure when you know your dream is waiting for you at the end.”
“Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble or encumbrance.”
“I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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