"It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else."

-- Wanda Koop

#Solitude Quotes #Cabins Quotes #Able Quotes

“Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet us like children, nothing more difficult than to persuade them to treat us like responsible human beings.”

Source : Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.5, Cambridge University Press
“Vegetarians always ask about getting enough protein. But I don't know any nutrition expert (who) can plan a diet of natural foods resulting in a protein deficiency, so long as you're not deficient in calories. You need only 5 or 6 percent of total calories in protein... and it is pratically impossible to get below 9 percent in ordinary diets.”
“I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore." And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.”

Source : Don Winslow (2012). “Savages: A Novel”, p.252, Simon and Schuster
“The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to.”
“When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.”
“Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.”
“Sometimes when weâ€™re in situations where we feel weâ€™re not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making ourselves feel we have some power.”
“In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.”

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