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And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#simplicity #beauty

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#flower #freedom #just #just living #little

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone. ↗

— James D. Houston

#attractions #away #been #everything #fundamental

It's true, people don't imagine I'd be particularly woody. ↗

— Clive Anderson

#imagine #particularly #people #true #woody

The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist. ↗

— Jack Anderson

#boxes #codes #communicates #exist #industry

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety. ↗

— Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

#anxious #being #come #death #duty

When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work. ↗

— Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

#else #father #felt #firmly #i

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft. ↗

— James Houston

#build #carve #cross #daily #granted

It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#brains #coming #dead #focused #funny

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited. ↗

— William Goldman

#beauty #conceit #humor #love #beauty