"You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that."

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E. B. White

#Life Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better.”
“You werenâ€™t world-class when Arsenal signed you.”
“My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.”
“It is not what you say that matters. It is what you are and how you live.”

Source : William Carlos Williams (1954). “Selected Essays”, New York, Random House
“Jealously is more common than loyalty.”
“A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.”
“This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.”
“For some slaves, the first step out of bondage is to learn to see their lives with new eyes. Their reality is a social world where they have their place and some assurance of a subsistence diet. Born into slavery, they cannot easily redefine their lives outside the frame of enslavement.”

Source : Kevin Bales (2005). “Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader”, p.4, Univ of California Press

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