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- If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an aesthetic sense that…
- To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to…
- They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are…
- All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
- Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal…
- If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity,…
- The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all…
- Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story…
- The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths, and…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong