"Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block."

-- Janine Benyus

#Block Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Poison Quotes

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”

Source : Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.118, Crown
“One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?”
“To be born as a human being is a rare thing, something to be grateful for. But being born as a human being is worthless if you spend your whole life in a mental hospital. It is worthless if you worry about not having money. It is worthless if you become neurotic because you cannot get a prestigious job. It is worthless if you weep because you lose your girlfriend.”
“The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009) . She talks about the happiness industry, the rise of medication to make us happy and of self-help books, and the influence of all this on religion. In many ways religion has become another form of self-help. We all suffer from over-exposure to positive thinking.”
“My friend, there is nothing so sexy as a woman who is angry. Perhaps when she is even throwing things.”
“My advice for an entrepreneur just starting out is to differentiate yourself. Why are you different? Whatâ€™s important about you? Why does the customer need you?”
“I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.”
“With great effort comes great gratification.”

Source : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.241, Storey Publishing

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