"But I believe that God is overheadAnd as life is to the living, so death is to the dead."

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Source : MARY MAPES DODGE (1879). “ALONG THE WAY”

Mary Mapes Dodge

#Believe Quotes #I Believe Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.”
“There is a reason why all things are as they are.”
“I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with.”
“It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.”
“None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.”
“Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment â€“ you just chew it to give yourself something to do with your stupid idiot Western mouth. Half the world is starving, and the otherâ€™s going, â€˜I donâ€™t actually need any nutrition, but it would be good to masticate, just to keep my mind off things.”
“Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness to live in a collaborative way. This means that a future can be created without having to force or sell it or barter for it. When we believe that barter or subtle coercion is necessary, we are operating out of a context of scarcity and self-interest, the core currencies of the economist.”
“I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead.”

Source : FaceBook post by Peter Carey from May 23, 2013

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