"I have been very influenced by the Japanese concept of space - the preciousness of space, and how one's environment can be shaped to make the most out of limited resources. That's the kind of thing we need to look at again - how momentous the results can be from very subtle changes."

-- Philip Taaffe

#Kind Quotes #Environment Quotes

“A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.”
“Choosing a partner is choosing a set of problems. There are no problem-free candidates.”
“The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.”

Source : Bernard Iddings Bell (1933). “Men Wanted!”
“There are lots of guys around the world that are lazy. They have big fat guts. They talk about chi power and things they can do, but don't believe it.”
“I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.”

Source : Vera Brittain (2008). “Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After”, Virago Press
“The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.”
“I don't settle. That's how I am.”
“The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape”

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