"We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again."

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Source : Robert Bly (2009). “Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems”, p.17, Harper Collins

Robert Bly

#Being Alone Quotes #Tree Quotes

“The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear.”
“If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.”

Source : Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.188, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing.”
“In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.”
“I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.”
“If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior.”
“Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.”
“The multinational corporation and international production reflect a world in which capital and technology have become increasingly mobile, while labor has remained relatively immobile.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.260, Princeton University Press

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