#green

The grass isn't always greener on the other side! ↗

— Ricky Gervais

#grass #greener #other #side

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#everywhere #green #green light #light #only

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore. ↗

— Chi Chi Rodriguez

#bananas #buy #even #getting #green

If I do a good job, people won't care if I am green or have three heads. ↗

— Harvey Milk

#care #good #good job #green #heads

I was trying to discover examples of a living restoration, trying to go beyond discussions about correct historic colors, materials, and techniques. I looked to the past for guidance, to find the graces we need to save. I want to be an importer. This is not nostalgia; I am not nostalgic. I am not looking for a way back. "From where will a renewal come to us, to us who have devastated the whole earthly globe?" asked Simone Weil. "Only from the past if we love it." What I am looking for is the trick of having the same ax twice, for a restoration that renews the spirit, for work that transforms the worker. We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we rescue ourselves. -- Howard Mansfield, The Same Ax Twice: Restoration and Renewal in a Throwaway Age ↗

— Howard Mansfield

#historic-preservation #age

The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#green-business #social-entrepreneurship #business

Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died. As long as either person is still alive, that relationship survives. (It changes, but it survives.) ↗

— John Green

#john-green #relationship #the-fault-in-our-stars #change

But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So we must celebrate the changes. ↗

— Deborah Moggach

#change

I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved. ↗

— John Green

#john-green #the-fault-in-our-stars #love

I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for. ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #death