"Men are daft around women, incautious and boastful."

-- Kristin Cashore

“Every city is either vibrant these days or is working on a plan to attain vibrancy soon. The reason is simple: a city isn't successful - isn't even a city, really - unless it can lay claim to being 'vibrant.'”
“The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.”
“I am visible-see this Indian face-yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't. We haven't.”
“Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in the House, it just doesn't.”

Source : "Meet Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (and Take Her Work Advice)". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2014.
“Why did God invent economists? To make weathermen feel good about themselves.”
“But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.”

Source : Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The Bargain”
“We are individualized aspects of that oversoul, and the individualized soul - yours and mine and everyone else's on the planet - incarnates over and over and over again in a physical body, emotional astral body and mental body. These three bodies are temporary bodies that the soul creates and uses for a given time, long or short.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy ...”

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.95

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