"If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?"

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Source : Olive Schreiner (1998). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.138, Courier Corporation

Olive Schreiner

#Doors Quotes #Bird Quotes #Sugar Quotes

“The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.”
“look, getting bitten doesn't make you into a monster. It just makes you a wolf. You are what you are. When you're a wolf, or when you're shifting, you don't have human inhibitions, so if you're naturally angry or violent, you get worse.”
“O supreme and unapproachable light! O whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee! How far removed art thou from my vision, though I am so near to thine! Everywhere thou art wholly present, and I see thee not. In thee I move, and in thee I have my being; and I cannot come to thee. Thou art within me, and about me, and I feel thee not.”

Source : St. Anselm of Canterbury “Anselm's Philosophy”, Lulu.com
“An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.”
“Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.”
“Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the corn, it is true, but it is to feed upon the chaff. I am sorry to add that they who are always speaking ill of others are also very apt to be doing ill to them. It requires some talent and some generosity to find out talent and generosity in others, though nothing but self-conceit and malice are needed to discover or to imagine faults. It is much easier for an ill-natured man than for a good-natured man to be smart and witty.”
“The warm and radiant yes of the heart is perfect, like the sun, in bringing all things to life and nourishing all that is truly human.”

Source : John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.1, Shambhala Publications
“I wonder who would lead us if none of us would vote.”

Source : Song: The Great American Novel, Album: Only Visiting This Planet

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