"Time is a device to stop everything from happening at once ... space is a device to stop everything from happening in Cambridge."

-- Dharma Kumar

#Space Quotes #Economics Quotes #Cambridge Quotes

“Be seriously involved with growing, with your own development, and never fear. Be the kind of person who is naturally powerful, positive, ingenious, open, to the highest degree. Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality.”
“A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what I myself experienced. That's not to say readers make up the book they want. We all have to agree on the facts. But readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. A book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.”
“The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers.”
“A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people...”

Source : Bessie Head (1990). “A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings”, African Writers Series
“That whole shoulder length hair thing is a thing!”
“Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.”
“Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.”
“For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms. They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and wasted, upon the idle breeze. So will it be with present feelings. They must be deepened into decision, or be entirely dissipated by delay.”

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