Quotes with peeling

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• The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

  Olive Schreiner
  South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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• The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.

  Edward Blishen
  English author and broadcaster (1920 - 1996)
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• Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

  Alan Watts
  English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• spirituality
• reductions
• beautiful
• possible
• thinking
• potatoes

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