"The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it."

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Source : 'Emblems' (1635) bk. 1, no. 12 'Hugo de Anima'

Francis Quarles

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“I feel like a spinning top or a DreidelThe spinning don't stop when you leave the cradleYou just slow downRound and around this world you goSpinning through the lives of the people you knowWe all slow down.”
“True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.”

Source : "Behind the Scenes in the O.R. With Dr. Oz" by Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. August 25, 2009.
“Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the ranks of poet? Brodsky: No one. And who put me in the ranks of humanity? Judge: Did you study it?...How to be a poet? Did you attempt to finish an insitute of higher learning...where they prepare...teach Brodsky: I did not think that it is given to one by education. Judge: By what then? Brodsky: I think that it is from God.”
“This other war, the war upon destruction of natural assets is one that will never be finished. Our weakness in this vast war is largely ignorance, that most of our citizens do not realize what is going on under their very feet.”
“When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.”

Source : "Kenya to 'Christmases' for Seth Gordon" by Jay A. Fernandez, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2008.
“I've got a sweater." Ben pulled off his coat and held it out for her. "Here." "Thanks, Ben. It's lovely and warm." Then she said, "Ben, I-- I can tell you how I feel about-- about everything. I think you're the best friend I've ever had. I-- I'd lie down and die for you if you wanted me to." "Honey," Ben said. "When I get you to lie down for me it won't be to die.”
“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.”
“Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?”

Source : Clarice Lispector, Johnny Lorenz, Benjamin Moser (2012). “A Breath of Life”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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