"On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me."

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Source : Elizabeth Von Arnim (2005). “The Solitary Summer”, p.5, 1st World Publishing

Elizabeth von Arnim

#Lying Quotes #Clouds Quotes #Worry Quotes

“It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.”
“I don't have a talent, unless you count hunting illegally, which they don't. Or maybe singing, which I wouldn't do for the Capitol in a million years. My mother tried to interest me in a variety of suitable alternatives from a list Effie Trinket sent her. Cooking, flower arranging, playing the flute. None of them took, although Prim had a knack for all three. Finally Cinna stepped in and offered to help me develop my passion for designing clothes, which really required development since it was non-existent.”
“You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.”
“There's only one place you want to be and that's Wembley, Old Trafford or Anfield.”
“there was a time when these weren't memories.”
“I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena”

Source : "From autopoiesis to neurophenomenology: Francisco Varela's exploration of the biophysics of being" by D. Rudrauf, Biol Res 36: 27-65, 2003.
“Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.”
“To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.”

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