"Your hope is the most beautiful and the saddest in the world."

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Source : Naomi Benaron (2012). “Running the Rift”, p.230, Oneworld Publications

Naomi Benaron

#Beautiful Quotes #World Quotes

“Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she'd have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them.”
“I like what Barcelona is doing. This city almost perfectly combines its natural advantages with cultural attractions, IT parks and first-rate educational opportunities. The same applies for Dublin, which manages to achieve a blend of complexity, tolerance and artistry and makes a point of not devoting every part of the city to the tourism industry. Sometimes creativity also means forgoing short-term profits and simply saying no.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.”
“Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.”
“The more someone talks, the more they reveal about themselves and the more they reveal about the way something has affected them.”
“So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.”
“I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and vastness. Learn any form of meditation. Spend twenty minutes every day if possible, in meditation, listening to the crazy monkey mind inside you, and learning how to still the thoughts and discover that big, deep soulful part of yourself.”
“Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now.”

Source : "'We have been abandoned by our own country'". "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.alternet.org. September 4, 2005.

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