"Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love which she had lost and still secretly mourned; from anguished joy over the pale, luminous love which drew her to the farthest boundaries of life on this earth. Through the great darkness that would come, she saw the gleam of another, gentler sun, and she sensed the fragrance of the herbs in the garden at world's end."

-- Sigrid Undset

#Grief Quotes #Heart Quotes #Garden Quotes

“We will begin by learning how to tie our shoes.”
“If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book.”
“My marriage license reads, 'To whom it may concern,'”
“The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly”

Source : Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.159, Random House
“I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - thatâ€™s kind of a gift to the author. The gift of close, undivided attention. To who else do we listen so closely for eight straight hours? And when readers give that gift to me, Iâ€™m grateful for it.”
“Clearly understand that the only limitations you will ever have are the limitations you impose upon yourself. You truly do have infinite potential.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from May 23, 2013
“The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it.”
“We have contingency plans for war, but none for peace.”

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