Some favourite quotations


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"Start and restart as many times as you have to." - Unknown

"If you have more than you need, build a longer table, not a higher fence." - Unknown

"Beware of the tiny gods frightened men create." - Hafiz

"I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad." - W. Heath Robinson

"I wake to sleep,
and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go."
- Theodore Roethke

"If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty."
- Japanese proverb

"I exist as I am, that is enough."
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

"Where I had learned the idea of absence, I was beginning to learn the idea of trace. There is always something left behind. That is the essential paradox. Even abandonment gives us memory." - Robert Kroetsch

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with." - Mark Twain

"Oftentimes I have hated in self-defense; but if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon." - Kahlil Gibran Sand and Foam


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