"a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage”
“We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.”
“Comparison with something that is better is the thief of joy. Comparison with something that is worse is a joy - full of relief and gratitude! You cannot always choose what happens to you or your circumstances but you can always choose your attitude by what you choose to compare your experiences or circumstances to and therefore how you will feel!! We can make any experience either a heaven or a hell by what we compare it to. Our emotions are 'an inside job!'”
“I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees, and rain, and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.”
“Monotheism begins with a god who hates trees.”

Source : John Lamb Lash (2006). “Not in His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief”, p.227, Chelsea Green Publishing
“If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with hope. Only bad things happened to you in the past, and only bad things will happen to you in the future.”
“Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready for it." (divergent pg.138)”

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