"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“Playing in the rain is worth catching cold.”

Source : Song: Sooner or Later, Album: I Am, 2007
“Our own personal salvation is to say, "I'm not going to judge myself, or let other people judge me, by my economic worth." We can't, obviously, control how other people will judge us, but - Life's too short to worry about those things. We can't control those things, but we can control how we feel about ourselves. And we work towards that. To say, "My life has been a success. Even if my bank account doesn't indicate it."”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“For the ocean is big and my boat is small. Find the courage.”
“I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.”

Source : Franz Wright (2009). “Walking to Martha's Vineyard”, p.30, Knopf
“The American teacher stands on the front lines of poverty and inequity that our fellow Americans refuse to acknowledge, on the front lines of the real social condition of our nationâ€“not the advertised oneâ€“and we stand together. When we look over our shoulders, thereâ€™s no one there backing us up. The rest of the army is off pretending there is no fight to be had here, no excuses to be made, no hardships to decry, no supply lines to worry about, that things in American society are just hunky-dory outside of the fact that the teachers just donâ€™t care enough”
“Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.”
“All it takes is for me to be seen chatting up a girl for [tabloids] to, you know, make up some crappy headline about me being a sex rat or whatever they call it.”
“When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.”

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