"Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time."

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Dale Dauten

#Inspirational Quotes #Thank You Quotes #Appreciation Quotes

“Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.”
“I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.”
“It's a great feeling, its something that I've dreamt about since I was little, and it's finally come true. It couldn't be better. Well I think that we stuck to the game plan. We got shots on net, and just used our power.”
“Your Lord is a God of mercy and bountifulness: be a source of mercy and bountifulness to your neighbors. If you will be such, you will find salvation yourself with everlasting glory.”
“If the body dies, it does no harm to the mind, but if the mind dies, one can no longer act as a man even though the body survives.”

Source : "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. VIII, 1938.
“And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That there are serious things, but most things are temporal and ephemeral, and you should cultivate that attitude. That joy and love and all the verities are what counts. So I try not to take too many things seriously, and if I find myself caught up in the seriousness of the moment, within a period of time, I'm able to cajole myself out of it.”
“A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.”
“I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.”

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