"And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath."

-- Theodore Roethke

#Life Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Breathing Quotes

“My mum told me always to wear heels. If I'm not wearing heels, she says, 'What? You're in flats?' So whenever I see her, I make sure I have heels with me.”
“When you meditate you discover over and over again that you are not a prisoner of your mind.”
“No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.”
“My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project.”
“Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.”
“I'm just saying I'm being myself, and people understand that.”
“Work at what you love the most, even if you're only a two. Trust that your love for what your are doing will see you through. That's not easy, but better to grow into what you love than to pretend you're satisfied with a developmental dead end.”
“I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.”

Source : "Stella McCartney: 'Fashion people are pretty heartless'". Interview With Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2009.

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