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“It is as though God said, "You think to create order? Here is the appropriate disorder, since they are one.”
― Florida Scott-Maxwell, The Measure of My Days: One Woman's Vivid, Enduring Celebration of Life and Aging

tags: creation, good-and-bad-times, orderliness-of-life

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“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: act, acting, actor, actors, adage, adages, animal, animals, aphorism, aphorisms, audacity, axiom, axioms, balls, be-yourself, boldness, brave, bravery, cojones, conform, conforming, conformity, courage, courageous, courageousness, daring, dead, death, deep, dictum, dictums, die, epigram, epigrams, facade, facades, fear, fearful, fearlessness, fit-in, fitting-in, fruit, fruits, gallantry, gnome, gnomes, grit, guts, hardihood, heroism, herself, himself, human, human-being, human-beings, humans, humor, humour, insightful, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, inspired, intrepidity, kill, killed, lemon, lemons, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, motivated, motivational, motive, moxie, murder, murdered, nerve, nonconformity, oneself, orange, people, peoples, person, persons, plant, plants, pluck, pluckiness, pretend, pretender, pretenders, pretending, produce, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, self, spunk, standing-out, standout, themselves, thought-provoking, thoughtful, tree, trees, true-grit, valour, words-to-live-by, yourself

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“I admire a contented mind. I revere enjoyment of the simple things. I can imagine that contentment has a high degree of truth. But the human tendency is to take good as normal, and one's natural right, and so no cause for satisfaction and pleasure. This is accompanied by the habit of regarding bad as abnormal and a personal outrage.”
― Florida Scott-Maxwell, The Measure of My Days: One Woman's Vivid, Enduring Celebration of Life and Aging

tags: contentment, good-and-bad-times, life-and-living, simple-things

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“In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt. It felt like we were in some place your body can't visit, some place with no ceiling and no walls and no floor and no instruments”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

tags: conversation, john-green, talk, turtles-all-the-way-down

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