"When the artless doctor sees No one hope, but of his fees, And his skill runs on the lees; Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When his potion and his pill, Has, or none, or little skill, Meet for nothing, but to kill; Sweet Spirit, comfort me!"

-- Robert Herrick

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“With the garden I planted for the Reina Sofia, each plant related to different celebrations along the calendar - Christmas with evergreen trees, Valentine's Day with roses, Halloween with pumpkins. All these symbols are so culturally loaded, but they are organic living entities - just like the fish in the tanks. They grow on their own. The symbolic ecosystem is growing without a narrative anymore. It's a physical and mental landscape.”
“Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.”
“The veil between us and the divine is more permeable than we imagine.”

Source : Sue Patton Thoele (2003). “The Woman's Book of Courage: Meditations for Empowerment and Peace of Mind”, p.233, Conari Press
“Only mediocre ideas can be tested.”
“People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices.”
“I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!”
“When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.”
“A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.”

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