"The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking."

-- George Wald

#Children Quotes #Intelligent Quotes #Answers Quotes

“The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.”
“I'd rather marry my husband in the stage where I know what I'm getting into and what it's going to be like for our life together.”
“My dad has a very dry sense of humor and my mom has a more fun, silly sense of humor. My mom is the type that, at the dinner table, you'd look over at and she'd have a piece of asparagus hanging down her nose. Classic mom bit.”
“Prayer doesnâ€™t work. Perhaps it makes the believer feel better (in the same way that meditation or deep thought would), but prayer doesnâ€™t actually affect the external world. Not only is it ineffective, but it is also a very narcissistic practiceâ€¦ why would a 'God' change its 'Divine Plan' to accommodate any personâ€™s wishes?”
“It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing”

Source : James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”
“Trees are worth more alive than dead”
“I don't really like L.A. much anymore. It's a hideous city. The weather's nice sometimes. It's just too crowded for me and too claustrophobic and too aggressive and too scary, and too chaotic. Did I say chaotic already? I like the country. I like quiet.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health. And what our society does its best to disguise from us is how ordinary, how commonly attainable, health is. We lose our health -- and create profitable diseases and dependencies -- by failing to see the direct connections between living and eating, eating and working, working and loving.”

Source : "The Art of the Commonplace". Book by Wendell Berry, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2002.

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