"Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game."

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David Allen

#Games Quotes #Mosquitoes Quotes #Ruins Quotes

“We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.”
“Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed, the way that a striated stone tumbled in a river feels irreducible, the way that this netsuke of a fox has become little more than a memory of a nose and a tail. But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing, and the way the leaves of my medlar shine.”
“In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, â€œDeath happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.”

Source : Joan Halifax (2008). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.172, Shambhala Publications
“If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.”
“When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.”
“The tiger is humbled by memories of prey.”
“I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!”

Source : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2009). “The Palace of Illusions: A Novel”, p.360, Anchor
“I don't like trying to influence politicians, who are themselves representative of huge numbers of people. As an educator, I'd rather enlighten the people and educate the people and let they be the ones who put the pressure on their elected officials.”

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