"Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance to believe once more than the world was beautiful and sensible, that the mad absurdities and cruelties of men were against the laws of Nature and the Universal Mind; that sooner or later violence would suffer utter defeat on this Earth. No words collected in books were more effectively convincing to me than foliage, clouds, rippling waters, rain."

-- Svetlana Alliluyeva

#Beautiful Quotes #Meaningful Quotes #Nature Quotes

“O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a wild animal only when he build the first wall. Men ceased to be a wild man only when we built the Green Wall, only when, by means of that wall, we isolated our perfect machine world from the irrational, ugly world of trees, birds, and animals...”
“I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.”

Source : "'Leaving Downton Abbey is liberating but also sad': Heart-throb Dan Stevens on his plans after Christmas Day exit" by Mark Jefferies, www.mirror.co.uk. December 27, 2012.
“We are going to see a tremendous number of health professionals retire over the next 8-10 years. We are not doing nearly enough to deal with this problem.”
“I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.”
“Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?”
“The ABA really loosened up the NBA and introduced innovations like the three-point shot and the Slam Dunk and other competitions at the All Star Game. And we had all the hot young players.”
“There's more than one way to tell each other things, and there's more than one way to listen, too.”

Source : Katherine Hannigan (2011). “Ida B: . . . and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World”, p.9, Harper Collins
“You can't fake passion. It is the fuel that drives any dream and makes you happy to be alive.”

Source : Linda Ellis, Mac Anderson (2012). “The Dash: Making a Difference with Your Life from Beginning to End”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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