"We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed with cancer. ... We want to teach you how to quiet the yammer ... how you can create comfort, inside and outside, how you can get warm, how you can feed yourself. And even learn to get through silence. ... There is a wilderness inside you, and a banquet. Both. [p. 253]"

-- Anne Lamott

#Cancer Quotes #Silence Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo”
“It's a whole lot more productive to be in problem-solving mode than it is to be in behavior modification mode.”
“If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.”

Source : Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.871, Delphi Classics
“I think the Dudleys are mad at us, well, because we're beautiful!”
“Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.”
“I want to see the U.S become an Islamic nation.”
“The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man creates around him an environment that is a projection into nature of his abstract ideas. It is only in the present century that the collective landscape has emerged as a social necessity. We are promoting a landscape art on a scale never conceived of in history.”
“Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?”

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