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• People who spend a great deal of time in their gardens attest to the natural mindfulness that gardening requires. What could be more naturally mindful than weeding? It requires a great deal of sustained attention. Weeds need to be taken up with care: Pull too hard, and the weed breaks in your fingers, leaving the root to grow and spread. Different weeds need different techniques and, sometimes, tools. When we weed our gardens, we have to pay attention to where and how we walk and bend. Move too far in one direction or another, and we'll squash growing things.

  Surya Das

  Weed, Moving, Taken

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• The Greater Soul moves in only one direction, and that is to bring into union that which has been made separate.

  Bert Hellinger

  Moving, Soul, Unions

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• …I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil. I don't feel that it's what it should be. It's full of flaws.' 'So's everybody's,' said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully. 'Mine's cracked in a hundred places. Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or 'tother, and would go on developing in that line.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sorry, Character, Aunt

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.569, e-artnow

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• I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sleep, Dark, Night

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Incidentally, it's best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction and hurry off in the other while their attention is distracted.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nursing, Chocolate, Attention

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• Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And that is your answer. The answer is always inside your chest. The right choice weighs more. That's how you know. It causes you to lean in its direction.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Acceptance, Swings, Choices

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas”, p.76, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns sharply in mid-course, stalls, drifts, starts up again. Nothing is ever known, and inevitably we come to a place quite different from the one we set out for.

  Paul Auster

  Different, Bumps, Turns

  Paul Auster (2008). “The New York Trilogy”, p.253, Faber & Faber

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• I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

  Joe Jonas

  Artist, Men, Thinking

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• My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.

  James Earl Jones

  Grandmother, Dramatic, Sanity

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Democracy is like three oxen pulling a plough. The oxen are the independent powers, but you have to walk in the same direction; otherwise, you cannot plough and that is what was happening in Colombia. One ox was walking in one direction, the other in another direction, so the democracy was not working.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Independent, Oxen, Democracy

  "Santos: 'Colombia can play a role . . . that coincides with the U.S. interest'". Interview with Juan Forero, www.washingtonpost.com. December 26, 2010.

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• We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.

  Tom Stoppard

  Intuition, Compass, Mortality

  "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead". www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.

  James Wolcott

  Reality, Passivity Is, Looks

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• Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

  Rowan Williams

  Thinking, Temptation, Flow

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• I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  "Joyce Carol Oates: 'I had a dream about a woman whose make-up was dried and cracking, she made a fool of herself'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• People wonder if I'll always be a part of this family and the answer is yes. My family has a lot of good energy going in one direction and because of it, we get a lot of things done. That's why I'll always spend a lot of time at Camp Phoenix.

  River Phoenix

  Phoenix, People, Energy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Moving, Remember

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

  Tom Stoppard

  World, Compass, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern

  "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead". Book by Tom Stoppard, August 24, 1966.

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• Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as water flows from high to low over the shortest possible distance, figures can only flow in one direction. You just have to keep your eye on them for the route to reveal itself. That’s all it takes. You don’t have to do a thing. Just concentrate your attention and keep your eyes open, and the figures make everything clear to you. In this whole, wide world, the only thing that treats me so kindly is math.

  Haruki Murakami

  Distance, Eye, Math

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• Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Taken, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.218, Modern Library

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• But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.

  Alexander Whyte

  Grace, Flow

  Alexander Whyte (1903). “The apostle Paul”

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• If I feel like I'm going too far in one direction, I just can it. It's a weird thing. Some of my songs might be cheesy; I try and keep it light. It's hard to explain.

  Mac DeMarco

  Song, Light, Cheesy

  Source: www.self-titledmag.com

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• Indeed, Xcor stayed away for the wrong reason, the bad reason, an unacceptable reason—in spite of all his training, he found himself choosing Throe’s life over ambition: His anger had taken him in one direction, but his regret had led him in another. And the latter one was what won out.

  J.R. Ward

  Regret, Taken, Ambition

  J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.260, Penguin

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• If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.

  Adrienne Rich

  Thinking, Rivers, Bed

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Poemas, 1963-2000”, p.134, Editorial Renacimiento

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• Every time you show something to somebody they're going in one direction, when they see that thing you did they're going to go off track - maybe towards a direction that you think is more important. They'll be more discerning, they'll probably see things a little bit more profoundly, they'll spend more time trying to understand what's in front of them.

  Vik Muniz

  Thinking, Track, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Honestly," she sighed, "I don't know what kind of life we'll have together, with me always flying off in one direction and you in the other." I smiled. "It's a good thing the world's round," I said.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Flying, Together, World

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