"I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower."

-- Malachy McCourt

#Flower Quotes #Bees Quotes #Avoided Quotes

“It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.”
“We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling.”
“There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.”

Source : Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket
“Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.”
“I was never that interested in business, to be honest. I do the minimal amount of business as possible because I'm not actually interested in it as a thing. But some people are interested in it, and there's nothing wrong with that.”
“Essential truth, the truth of the intellectualists, the truth with no one thinking it, is like the coat that fits tho no one has ever tried it on, like the music that no ear has listened to. It is less real, not more real, than the verified article; and to attribute a superior degree of glory to it seems little more than a piece of perverse abstraction-worship.”
“But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.”
“The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.”

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