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  • #1
    Rachel Carson
    “Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?”
    Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

  • #2
    Rachel Carson
    “A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power.”
    Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

  • #3
    Rachel Carson
    “Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in checks and balances by which nature holds the species within bounds.”
    Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

  • #4
    Rachel Carson
    “We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.”
    Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

  • #5
    Mariah McKenzie
    “we can proceed without knowing or expectation”
    Mariah McKenzie, More: Journey To Mystical Union Through The Sacred And The Profane

  • #6
    Mariah McKenzie
    “What I know best is crying and orgasm”
    Mariah McKenzie, More: Journey To Mystical Union Through The Sacred And The Profane

  • #7
    Mariah McKenzie
    “Holy intimacy is fostered with the marriage to two commitments: one to sitting in quiet solitude with the inner Self; the other to sitting in rapt attention with one's mortal Beloved”
    Mariah McKenzie, More: Journey To Mystical Union Through The Sacred And The Profane

  • #8
    Kiera Cass
    “Love only yourself a little bit longer, until you can't stand not to love someone else.”
    Kiera Cass, Happily Ever After

  • #9
    Shannon L. Alder
    “You are not an option, a choice or a soft place to land after a long battle. You were meant to be the one. If you can wrap yourself around the idea that you are something incredible, then you will stop excusing behavior that rapes your very soul. You were never meant to teach someone to love you. You were meant to be loved.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #10
    Debasish Mridha
    “When someone is crying and her heart is torn,
    Be an angel of kindness and help her to carry on.”
    Debasish Mridha

  • #11
    Israelmore Ayivor
    “Those who mistrust their own abilities are being too wicked to themselves, discouraging themselves from doing what they should have been excelling in. If you are good at discouraging yourself, you can't be a good leader because leadership is built on inspiring others to face challenges.”
    Israelmore Ayivor

  • #12
    Christine Feehan
    “It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable”
    Christine Feehan, Safe Harbor

  • #13
    Sarah Dessen
    “There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”
    Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

  • #14
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #15
    Blaise Pascal
    “The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
    Blaise Pascal

  • #16
    Fannie Flagg
    “I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.”
    Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

  • #17
    Kahlil Gibran
    “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
    Kahlil Gibran

  • #18
    Ted Hughes
    “The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
    Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes

  • #19
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #20
    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

  • #21
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”
    Rumi

  • #22
    Walt Whitman
    “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #23
    Roy T. Bennett
    “It's worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That’s what makes you really feel alive. You have to say ‘no’ to other things you’re used to, and do it with all your heart.”
    Roy T. Bennett

  • #24
    “I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything.
    Maybe we’re from the same star.”
    Emery Allen



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