"I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so alive as I enliven those I greet."

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Source : Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.127, Chelsea Green Publishing

Derrick Jensen

#Beautiful Quotes #Character Quotes #Alive Quotes

“If you want to make a [rhubarb] pie from scratch, first you have to create the universe.”
“In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.”
“The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.”
“The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave the sea, we leave the earth. The air is no longer of this world .”
“Just do this one thing: promise yourself you'll never deal underhanded to anybody. You'll be honest in all of your business dealings. That is hard. Conquer that one. Demand it of yourself. Demand a higher standard for yourself and your children and do it.”
“You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I dont like being told someones interpretation of something that I do.”
“I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!”

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