"All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power."

-- John Ruskin

#White Quotes #Snow Quotes #Progress Quotes

“When I was younger, I had an older brother a year and a half older than me, so we always had each other, and I felt very fortunate in that regard.”
“Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.”
“The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.”
“She had known for a long time that you had to pay for everything in life, and usually more than it was worth.”

Source : Hans Fallada (2009). “Every Man Dies Alone”, p.240, Melville House
“The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.”

Source : Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.9, Univ of California Press
“my major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.”
“To love another another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.”
“The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.”

Source : Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.162, Yearling

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