"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."

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Henry David Thoreau

#Niece Quotes #Animal Quotes #Sky Quotes

“It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.”

Source : "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.
“It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.”

Source : "'Never mind glass ceilings, what about glass skirting boards?'". Interview with Kevin Maguire, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2003.
“Everything is flowing. The Great River of Time takes everything with it, and nothing in this world remains unchanged or stabilized.”

Source : Mouni Sadhu (2005). “Meditation: An Outline for Practical Study”, p.50, Karnac Books
“Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.”
“The experience of a sense of guilt for wrong-doing is necessary for the development of self-control. The guilt feelings will laterserve as a warning signal which the child can produce himself when an impulse to repeat the naughty act comes over him. When the child can produce his on warning signals, independent of the actual presence of the adult, he is on the way to developing a conscience.”
“If your starting point for understanding humanity is a racialist viewpoint, with superiority and inferiority projected onto people because of the color of their skin, then it's so easy to take the next step of justifying that point theologically and reading it into the Christian scripture. And that makes it harder to understand what scripture is actually saying!”

Source : Source: reflections.yale.edu
“... when horizons grow or diminish within a person the distances are not measurable by other people.”

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