"Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all."

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Source : Fanny Fern (2016). “Folly as It Flies”, p.25, The Floating Press

Fanny Fern

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“Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.”
“Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the readerâ€™s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.”

Source : Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.16, Canongate Books
“Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the â€œimagetextâ€ incarnate”
“Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.”
“I do my job like I breathe â€” so if I canâ€™t breathe Iâ€™m in trouble.”
“I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.”
“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill.”
“When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are, and then be what's left, what remains is the untarnished presence of who you've always been and still really are.”

Source : Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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