Agroforestry Research Quotes & Sayings

One nip from a dragon and you're down? Get up, you craven school (boy/girl)! — Gangrel

She was too proud to eat her share of what little food we had. She told me she had. She swore she did. But every time I complained about being so hungry it hurt, she always offered me a nut or a partially rotted turnip, claiming she had just found two and already ate hers."

Rose sniffled and wiped her eyes again.

"After she was gone, I left my pride in that little hut and begged my way to Medford. I'd do anything. Once you've spent an afternoon chasing a fly around your house for dinner, once you've eaten spiders whole and drooled over worms found while burying your mother with your bare hands, there's nothing beneath you. All I wanted was to live-I'd forgotten everything else. A clod of dirt doesn't have dreams. A bit of broken stone doesn't understand hope. Each morning, all I wanted was to see the next dawn. — Michael J. Sullivan

We don't always choose, Majesty. We simply make the best choices we can once the deed is done — Erika Johansen

The sadness of the heart rises to the face, and in the eyes may be read the history of that which passes in the soul. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Often, your lessons will not come easily. Suffering has always been a vehicle for deep spiritual growth. Those who have endured great suffering are generally the ones who evolve into great beings. Those who have been deeply hurt by life are generally the ones who can feel the pain of others in a heartbeat. Those who have endured adversity become humbled by life, and as a result, are more open, compassionate and real. We may not like suffering when it visits us, but it serves us so very well: it cracks the shell that covers our hearts and empties us of the lies we have clung to about who we are, why we are here and how this remarkable world of ours really functions. Once emptied, we can be refilled with all that is good, noble and true. Troubles can transform, if we choose to allow them to do so. As Joseph Campbell — Robin S. Sharma

If you don't have the background awareness of oneness, duality becomes real. — Alan Finger

Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people. — Thom Mayne

I prefer doing over watching. — Mary J. Williams

7How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings. — Anonymous

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood. — Ambrose Bierce

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down. — Barbara Cartland