"To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct. Baser even than hate, the thing with teeth, which can be stilled with a tone of voice or stunned by beauty. If the whole world of the living has to turn on the single point of remaining alive, that pointed endurance is the poetry of hope. The thing with feathers."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Hate Quotes #Voice Quotes #Hopeful Quotes

“A taste for simplicity cannot last for long.”
“Whatever the faults of the rabbis, consistency was not one of them.”
“You canâ€™t change the music of your soul.”
“This civilisation is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without meaning or foundation, which now threatens to destroy him, for through his behaviour and his activities, he, who should be her master, has disturbed NatureÃ¤s inherent unity.”

Source : Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (1999). “The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water: Volume 1 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.9, Gill & Macmillan Ltd
“Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.”
“Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings”

Source : Julius Lester (2003). “When Dad Killed Mom”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.”

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