"It's harder to appreciate what you don't have to look hard to find."

-- Laura Dave

#Appreciate Quotes #Looks Quotes #Harder Quotes

“What was considered a peak mystical experience a few years ago is today the basic platform of sanity from which our exploration begins.”

Source : Arjuna Ardagh (2010). “The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World”, p.41, New World Library
“We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.”
“All human action is expressive; a gesture is an intentionally expressive action. All art is expressive - of its author and of the situation in which he works - but some art is intended to move us through visual gestures that transmit, and perhaps give release to, emotions and emotionally charged messages. Such art is expressionist.”
“If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I'd still say no.”

Source : Song: Ex-Girlfriend Racial Humor, Album: Words Words Words, 2010
“When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts.”

Source : "Jo Brand: 'National treasure? I'd rather maintain a taint of national disgrace'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.
“It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war.”

Source : Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”
“You gotta fight. You gotta get out the negative energy. Don't let it build up. You end up screaming at each other over something totally stupid, like, 'Well, why'd you put this spoon in this drawer then?' 'Just to p-s you off, that's why! I got spoons hidden all over this house! Keep it up, and your napkin rings are gonna start disappearing.'”
“Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.”

Source : Isabelle Holland (1985). “A Death at St. Anselm's”, Fawcett Books

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