There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.  ~Ruth Stout

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US President (1882-1945)

 Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. -Lily Tomlin

 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared  to what lies within us.

 Minds are like parachutes - they function only when open.

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