"A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child."

-- Eula Biss

#Children Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Sighing, she gave a brief nod. â€œI was supposed to win. I was supposed to finish you off. They never counted on you winning. And then you didnâ€™t kill me. It was awful.â€ â€œYouâ€™re welcome,â€ I said, feeling fresh anger ignite. â€œIâ€™ll try not to humiliate you by letting you live next time.â€ (Max II to Max)”
“We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown.”
“Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness.”

Source : Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.5, New World Library
“Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”

Source : Kenneth Patchen (2008). “We Meet”, p.102, New Directions Publishing
“Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations.”
“I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887-1976) lived and painted.”
“At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn't celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In my idiocy, I missed out! I feel completely differently now compared with that time.”
“It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way. That's good design.”

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