"Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead."

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Source : Louise Penny (2008). “Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.131, Macmillan

Louise Penny

#Life Quotes #World Quotes #Growing Quotes

“A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.”
“The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates, the so-called cradle of civilization, where plants were first grown for crops by settled communities, garden enclosures were also constructed. Gardens emphasized the contrast between two separate worlds: the outer one where nature remained awe-inspiringly in control and an inner artificially created sanctuary, a refuge for man and plants from the burning desert, where shade trees and cool canals refreshed the spirit and ensured growth.”
“I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland”
“Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection.”
“At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.”
“Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day”

Source : Acceptance message for the 1990 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, July 1991.
“What I'm trying to do right now is truly answer my most deepest most unarticulated questions for myself through my writing in some form.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“I had a Vincent van Gogh, a small ProvenÃ§al landscape. We sold it. If you're going to have a van Gogh it should be a really good van Gogh.”

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