"Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise."

-- Annie Dillard

#Tunnels Quotes #Views Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“We are all thinking, willing, knowing,conscious centers of Life. We are surroundedby, immersed in, and there is flowing through us a creative something... call it what you will.”
“There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers makes hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there's a welcoming hand-he's the man who delivers the goods.”
“Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”

Source : Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.163, Hamilton Books
“I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother.”
“Get over it people, I worked my ***** off.”
“Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.”

Source : "Can Business Be Enlightened?" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2010.
“You realize that you habitually thought of Mom when something in your life was not going well, because when you thought of her it was as though something got back on track, and you felt re-energized.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kyung-sook Shin from Mar 02, 2013
“Locked together in hatred. But I can't hate you Louis. Louis my love, I was mortal till you gave me your immortal kiss. You became my mother, and my father, and so I'm yours forever. But now it's time to end it, Louis. Now it's time to leave him. - Claudia, 'Interview with a Vampire”

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