"Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future."

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Source : Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.769, Ballantine Books

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#Life Quotes #Lying Quotes #Flower Quotes

“Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz, and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However, I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public, out in the open.”
“Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.”

Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.198
“Even though I dislike being kicked by others, I do enjoy the feeling of kicking others”
“How to be happy: Ignore people who think they know more about you than you do.”
“When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.”
“I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos â€“ in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever â€“ was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives Iâ€™ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And Iâ€™m keeping the last shell for myself.”

Source : "The Fuller Memorandum (The Laundry Files, Book 3)". Book by Charles Stross, July 1, 2010.
“When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.”
“When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But winning the New York City Marathon kept me running for another decade.”

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