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“funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months with resistant patients who hate each other.”

People Years Believe Hate Wonder Psychology Ready Months Garden Patient Variety Neurosis Counseling

Book:Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism

Source: Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism

“Not only must we follow the golden thread towards spiritual freedom, but we must also unravel the garden-variety twine that is wrapped tightly around our hearts and minds.”

Mind Heart Spiritual Garden Golden Variety Thread Heart And Mind Spiritual Freedom

Book:The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

Source: The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

“I think being a woman in any business that's dominated by men, you have your garden variety pros and cons, where you learn how to focus and harness your various powers and weaknesses for better or for good.”

Thinking Men Focus Weakness Garden Various Variety Being A Woman Harness Pros And Cons

Author:Amanda Palmer

“So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'”

“Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.”

Years Reality Garden Variety Homosexual Alcoholics Rumor

Book:The Elementary Particles

Source: The Elementary Particles

“She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been writing about for hundreds of years, but she also knew, from those same books, that there were people who never recover form it, ones who go on through life beset by a dim and painful longing.”

People Writing Years Book Form Relationship Special Poet Goes On Garden Longing Painful Variety Novelists

Author:Sarah Dunn

“There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.”

Humans Ordinary Garden Variety Garbage

Book:All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

“And I don't think I want to meet this super-reaper." Nash stuffed his hands in his front pockets. "The garden variety's weird enough.”

Thinking Want Enough Hands Fronts Garden Variety Pockets Reaper

Book:Soul Screamers Volume One: My Soul to Lose\My Soul to Take\My Soul to Save

Source: Soul Screamers Volume One: My Soul to Lose\My Soul to Take\My Soul to Save

“The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.”

“A Garden, an Elaboratory, a Work - house, Improvements and Breeding, are pleasant and Profitable Diversions to the Idle and Ingenious: For here they miss Ill Company, and converse with Nature and Art; whose Variety are equally grateful and instructing; and preserve a good Constitution of Body and Mind.”

Source: The Select Works of William Penn....

“I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness of contour, a vitality of edge, or a vigour of spring, as well as an infinite variety of colour that no artefact I have seen in the last sixty years can rival...each day, as I look, I wonder where my eyes were yesterday.”

Years Wells Looks Eye Lasts Walks Wonder Seeing Tree Flower Spring Garden Infinite Edges Yesterday Variety Colour Each Day Sixty Vitality Rivals Shrubs Artefacts

Author:Bernard Berenson

“I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year.”

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin