"Hair is the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle; so escaping from the idea of death, that, with a lock of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and compare notes with the angelic nature,--may almost say, "I have a piece of thee here not unworthy of thy being now."

-- Leigh Hunt

#Children Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Light Quotes

“The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.”
“The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.”
“The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.”

Source : Anna Leonowens (2009). “The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok”, p.184, Applewood Books
“No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.”

Source : Steven Erikson (2009). “Toll The Hounds: The Malazan Book of the Fallen 8”, p.530, Random House
“We must keep both our femininity and our strength.”
“I respect my boundaries, and I insist that others respect them, too.”
“If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.”
“We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life.”

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