"But for now, happiness throws stones. It guards itself. I wait."

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Markus Zusak

#Happiness Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Stones Quotes

“I don't like corporate diversity workshops.”

Source : "'The New York Times' Looks Ahead At Michelle Obama's Future". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, gpbnews.org. January 6, 2017.
“Life is not about finding your true self, but creating who you wish to be.”
“A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.”
“Ithink Isaid'All menare Jews excepttheydon't know it.'I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.”
“Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.”

Source : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.376
“... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights", the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.”
“Your staying alive means so much more than you really know or that anyone is aware of at this moment.”

Source : "Suicide, and Hope for Our Future Selves". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. December 9, 2015.
“It is by metaphor that language grows.”

Source : Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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