Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
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Hobbies cost money but interests are free.
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More than 20 years ago, President Kennedy defined an approach that is as valid today as when he announced it. So let us not be blind to our differences,'' he said, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.''Well, those differences are differences in governmental structure and philosophy. The common interests have to do with the things of everyday life for people everywhere. Just suppose with me for a moment that an Ivan and an Anya could find themselves, oh, say, in a waiting room, or sharing a shelter from the rain or a storm with a Jim and Sally, and there was no language barrier to keep them from getting acquainted. Would they then debate the differences between their respective governments? Or would they find themselves comparing notes about their children and what each other did for a living?Before they parted company, they would probably have touched on ambitions and hobbies and what they wanted for their children and problems of making ends meet. And as they went their separate ways, maybe Anya would be saying to Ivan, Wasn't she nice? She also teaches music.'' Or Jim would be telling Sally what Ivan did or didn't like about his boss. They might even have decided they were all going to get together for dinner some evening soon. Above all, they would have proven that people don't make wars.People want to raise their children in a world without fear and without war. They want to have some of the good things over and above bare subsistence that make life worth living. They want to work at some craft, trade, or profession that gives them satisfaction and a sense of worth. Their common interests cross all borders.
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Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.
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Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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A family stitched together with love…seldom unravels.
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Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
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I’m creative…You can’t expect me to be neat too.
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Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
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Gardening tills my soul.
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Our lives are like quilts, bits and pieces, joy and sorrow, stitched with love.
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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk forever, in my garden.
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Gardens are a form of autobiography.
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A good friend is like a warm quilt wrapped around the heart.
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When life gives you scraps, make a scrapbook!
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My husband lets me have
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To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
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May all your weeds be wild flowers.
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One who sleeps under a quilt is comforted by love.
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Life is a patchwork of friends.
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You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.
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When life goes to pieces, make a quilt.
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Blessed are the children of the piecemakers…
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Good friends are like fine quilts—They seem to age with you yet they never lose their warmth.
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