"This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don't poison the water, soil, or air, don't let the earth get overcrowded, and don't touch the thermostat have been broken"

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Source : "The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times". Book by Paul Loeb, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2014.

Paul Hawken

#Future Quotes #Air Quotes #Broken Quotes

“I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. August 2006.
“Change is the law of God's mind and resistance to it is the source of all pain.”
“If one of God's children finds he cannot see or feel life in other terms than those of form, if he tries to escape and live outside of this obsession and fails, he generally calls himself a sculptor.”

Source : Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”
“In the end, we are part of this region, and we are affected by its developments. What we may do or not do in the future depends on the nature of what happens here in the region.”
“Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.”
“He who travels much has this advantage over others â€“ that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage â€“ that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.”

Source : Giacomo Leopardi (2002). “Thoughts: And, The Broom [or The Flower of the Desert]”, Hesperus Press
“For a moment, I felt as if the universe had turned upside down and we were falling softly into an enormous black bowl of stars, and I knew, beyond any doubt, that everything was going to be alright.”
“I think everything is fair game to a certain extent.”

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