"The bottle is where everything sad or mean or confusing can go. And the blues--it's like that bottle. But in the bottle there's a seed that you let grow. Even in the bottle it can grow big and green. It's full of all those feelings that are in there, but beautiful and growing too."

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Source : Heidi W. Durrow (2011). “The Girl Who Fell from the Sky”, p.166, Algonquin Books

Heidi W. Durrow

#Beautiful Quotes #Mean Quotes #Confusing Quotes

“You like that analogy? That was pretty good?”
“I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things.”
“Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.”
“Must protect my little pockets of happiness.”
“The spiritual experience isnâ€™t one of filling ourselves upâ€” with either religious or intellectual beliefsâ€”but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.”
“I feel like there is this weird thing where celebrity involvement in political campaigns kind of goes together like peanut butter and chocolate. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad.”
“All nature is the temple; earth the altar.”
“When I go across the country, I am awed, humbled and inspired every day by the tremendous research done every day by women. I hear from them; it still remains difficult. They ask: "Should I have a family or should I have a research career?" No one should have to make that decision.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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