"The city mouse lives in a house, The garden mouse lives in a bower"

-- Christina Rossetti

#Garden Quotes #Cities Quotes #House Quotes

“all our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with this vague feeling of selfness that we have. We are so emotionally involved with and attached to this "self" that we take it for granted.”

Source : "The Embodied Mind". Book by Francisco Varela, p. 63, 1991.
“Great brand, no resume - no problem. Great resume, no brand? Welcome to position #347 of the stack of five hundred equally great resumes”
“Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.”
“The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.”
“It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.”
“The world economy diffuses rather than concentrates wealth.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.85, Princeton University Press
“Women's history is the primary tool for women's emancipation.”
“I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.”

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