"Hope is itself a species of happiness..."

-- Samuel Johnson

#Anticipation Quotes #Species Quotes

“You don't have to be equal, you don't have to be better, you don't have to be worse. You can just be at peace.”
“The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.”

Source : Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.411, Atlantic Publishers & Dist
“He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.”
“Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following year.”

Source : Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press
“She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?”
“... work is only part of a man's life; play, family, church, individual and group contacts, educational opportunities, the intelligent exercise of citizenship, all play a part in a well-rounded life. Workers are men and women with potentialities for mental and spiritual development as well as for physical health. We are paying the price today of having too long sidestepped all that this means to the mental, moral, and spiritual health of our nation.”
“If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.99, iUniverse
“It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.”

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