"The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences."

-- Hazrat Inayat Khan

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“And trust dies from ifs and buts”

Source : Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.126, Random House
“There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.”
“The photographs of one dead terrorist mastermind carry no real news or information about the nature or horror of war. They just create sensation instead of deeper understanding.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: Philip Gourevitch on Osama Bin Laden". www.newyorker.com. May 4, 2011.
“The thing with kids is that you only get one chance to do it right. It's really important to share their gifts while they're discovering them. That's why spelling bees are such a compelling story. They stimulate them intellectually, they awaken their competitive spirit, but it's fun. There's something fun about words.”
“Mathematics is the study of analogies between analogies. All science is. Scientists want to show that things that don't look alike are really the same. That is one of their innermost Freudian motivations. In fact, that is what we mean by understanding.”

Source : Gian-Carlo Rota (2009). “Indiscrete Thoughts”, p.214, Springer Science & Business Media
“I wonder where you got that idea from? I mean, the idea that it's feeble to change your mind once it's made up. That's a wrong idea, you know. Make up your mind about things, by all means - but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind, Elizabeth. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas.”

Source : Enid Blyton (2015). “Naughtiest Girl Collection 1 (books 1-3)”, p.114, Hachette UK
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
“O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.”

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