"In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collective soul; polluted waters mean a sickened soul. Water is the basis of our self-identity, and when we dream of canoes and thunderstorms and streams and even snowballs, we're dreaming about our innermost selves."

-- Douglas Coupland

#Dream Quotes #Mean Quotes #Self Quotes

“There's nothing wrong with having a 9-to-5 job, but figure out a way to have another stream of income.”
“Just as children, step by step, must separate from their parents, we will have to separate from them. And we will probably suffer...from some degree of separation anxiety: because separation ends sweet symbiosis. Because separation reduces our power and control. Because separation makes us feel less needed, less important. And because separation exposes our children to danger.”
“They showed each other that it was alright for their hearts to come out and play; that it was alright to feel close to someone; that love didn't always end in heartbreak.”
“[Law] is one part justice to nine parts expediency. Who needs it.”

Source : Lucille Kallen (1981). “Introducing C.B. Greenfield”
“Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.”

Source : Wallace Thurman (2012). “The Blacker the Berry”, p.92, Courier Corporation
“as we age we are more alive than seems likely, convenient, or even bearble. Too often our problem is the fervor of life within us. My dear fellow octogenarians, how are we to carry so much life, and what are we to do with it?”
“Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.”

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