"Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans -- the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum."

Sontag, Susan on things and little things
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"Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul."

Burbank, Luther on flowers
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"Earth laughs in flowers."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on flowers
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"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few and they are more beautiful if they are a few."

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow on scarcity
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"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea."

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow on patience   

"Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time."

Troll, Lillian on goals   

"We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth."

Satir, Virginia on growth
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"God could not be everywhere, and therefore He made mothers."

Saying, Jewish on mothers
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"A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."

Stalin, Joseph on statistics
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"We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings."

Bradley, Francis H. on girls