"The object is to keep busy being something...as opposed to doing something. We are all sent here to bring more gratitude, more kindness, more forgiveness and more love into this world. That is too big a job to be accomplished by just a few."

-- Richard Nelson Bolles

#Gratitude Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Kindness Quotes

“I often use colour to attack form, to break it down a little or begin to dissolve it. But I am not at all interested in 'pure' colour or in colour as a transcendental presence... So if I use colours to begin to dissolve forms, I also use forms to prevent colours becoming entirely detached from their everyday existence.”
“Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.”
“I like suggesting that â€˜we are slaves to the objects around us,â€™ that â€˜plenty should be enough,â€™ or that the â€˜buyer should beware,â€™ within the context of conventional selling space.”
“Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.”
“When we speak of the origin of western democracy it's precisely here, in this territory that the modern definition of democracy first emerged in city/states known now as Greece. This was coming from a society in which 30 thousand citizens had rights and 300 thousand were slaves and citizens without rights that lived in this territory. So that was the concept of western democracy; some citizens had the prerogative of exerting their civil and political rights while the others had none.”
“It's strange how knowledge changes perception.”
“Setting goals is good to do, to make your dreams come true for you.”
“For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.”

Source : Selma Lagerlöf (1975). “Memories of my childhood: further years at Mårbacka”, Kraus Reprint. Co.

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