"The first commandment of economics is: Grow. Grow forever. Companies get bigger. National economies need to swell by a certain percent each year. People should want more, make more, earn more, spend more - ever more. The first commandment of the Earth is: enough. Just so much and no more. Just so much soil. Just so much water. Just so much sunshine. Everything born of the Earth grows to its appropriate size and then stops."

-- Donella Meadows

#Sunshine Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes

“Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.”
“I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring the excess away. This is against all the best advice for writing long form prose, and I have tried over the years to break myself of the habit, but I can't bear to leave anything ungainly on the page and half the fun for me is that tinkering. So the length of a novel was a daunting prospect.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. It takes forty-one seconds to climb a ladder three stories tall. It's not easy to imagine the year 3012, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. We have new capabilities nowâ€”strange powers we're still getting used to. The mountains are a message from Aldrag the Wyrm-Father. Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.”
“If your partner asks you if something bothers you, and something bothers you, the best thing you can do is say, "Yes, it bothers me." Otherwise you create a situation where they think everything is fine, continue with the offending behavior, while you build up a secret reservoir of resentment that will eventually come pouring out, to their shock.”
“You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.”
“In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.”

Source : Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.125, New Directions Publishing
“Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle .”

Source : "Divided Europeans: Understanding Ethnicities in Conflict". Book edited by Tim Allen and John Eade (p. 41), June 30, 1999.
“Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.”

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