"I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special."

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Source : Robert Harling (1988). “Steel Magnolias”, p.35, Dramatists Play Service Inc

Robert Harling

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“She hates everything that is not what she longs for.”
“In the new workplace, with its emphasis on flexibility, teams and a strong customer orientation, this crucial set of emotional competencies is becoming increasingly essential for excellence in every job in every part of the world.”
“It should not be harder for our daughters to direct than our sons. It should be an equal playing field.”
“Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many lines of thought converge.”
“Souls are punished when they have gone forth from the body, some wandering among us, some going to hot or cold places of the earth, some harassed by spirits. Under all circumstances they suffer with the irrational part of their nature, with which they also sinned. For its sake there subsists that shadowy body which is seen about graves, especially the graves of evil livers.”
“I never thought of myself as a writer.”
“The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds... empty of itself, in order that extraneous life may have room in it; finally, mistress of itself and also of its body, so that the entire person is readily at the disposal of every call.”

Source : Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.86, ICS Publications
“The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.”

Source : Matsuo Basho, “The Oak Tree”

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