"It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent."

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Source : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.79, Storey Publishing

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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“As long as God is with me, I donâ€™t need anything else. With my father looking after me from heaven, I wouldnâ€™t be tired or exhausted, no matter what! As long as Iâ€™m with my beloved members, i can do anything! With ELFâ€™s care on me, I can do everything”
“One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.”
“I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits.”
“I flip open my phone to text Jessica: Me: Guess who's pregnant? Jess: u? Me: Get real. Jess: ur mom? Me: yep Jess: Mazel tov!? Me: Don't congratulate me, plz Jess: Could b worse Me: How? Jess: Could be u? Me: I'm a virgin. Jess: Nobody's perfect.”
“. . . a dirty exterior is a great enemy to beauty of all descriptions.”

Source : Mary Martha Sherwood (1844). “The History of John Marten: A Sequel to The Life of Henry Milner”, p.180
“I burn so many calories when I work out that I don't really count calories or necessarily try and stay away from anything.”
“Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.”
“Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.”

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