"Ernest once told me that the word paradise was a Persian words that meant walled garden. I knew then that he understood how necessary the promises we made to each other were to our happiness. You couldn't have real freedom unless you knew were the walls were and tended to them. We could lean on the walls because they existed; they existed because we leaned on them."

-- Paula McLain

#Wall Quotes #Real Quotes #Garden Quotes

“Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.”
“When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.”
“Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.”
“Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.”
“It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it.”
“Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.”
“Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.”
“Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love”

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