"Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by this month seem only stirred to lamentation, giving us year end and 'melancholy days' remarks, thereby showing that theory is stronger than observation among the rhyming brotherhood, or else that they have chronic indigestion and no gardens to stimulate them."

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Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

Mabel Osgood Wright

#Garden Quotes #Swings Quotes #Years Quotes

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
“Being nervous isn't bad. It just means something important is happening.”
“There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.”

Source : Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark (2013). “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Reader's Choice 20th Anniversary Edition: The Chicken Soup for the Soul Stories that Changed Your Lives”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
“Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.”
“When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.”
“As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together”
“He's my elvis. I idolize Nusrat, he's a god, too”
“I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.”

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