I’ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical plants like caution and common sense. Still, though, hope does not flourish in every garden, and I feel thankful it has taken root in mine.
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SHARON SALZBERG When you're wide open, the world is a good place. SHARON SALZBERG I'm sitting at home every time there's a Grammy. It's like, 'What is Sharon doing to... SHARON JONES They won't now be accused of bowing down to political pressure if they do decide to lower rates. SHARON COOMBS I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, ... SHARON OLDS On April 19 1943, the Bermuda conference gathered, with the participation of representatives from Br... ARIEL SHARON I don't know why I keep saying this, and I don't know why I keep using their names... And I&... SHARON JONES You always get things that teach you and steps to grow, but there is a confidence that is gained and... SHARON LAWRENCE It was just a courtesy call, not part of an official state visit. SHARON GANG I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in... 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SHARON SCOTT Sometimes our driver is the only person that our meals on wheels participants see everyday. SHARON WILLARD We live in this world of great promise, where everything seems to offer an unchanging final happines... SHARON SALZBERG I bid on the maidenhair fern at my garden club, and these hollyhocks came from my friend Millie's [S... SHARON LANE It's difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have bee... SHARON SALZBERG I don't think Julia Roberts is as innocent as her image suggests. You have to be a really smart ... SHARON STONE If there is ever to be an end to the conflict, the Palestinians must recognize the Jewish people'... ARIEL SHARON Every leaving of a Jewish community is a most difficult thing. ARIEL SHARON Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that ... ARIEL SHARON Until the '90s, major labels were looking for a certain look. This Sony guy told me I was 't... SHARON JONES There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win. SHARON POLLOCK It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves pri... SHARON SALZBERG We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something ... SHARON SALZBERG There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and fo... SHARON OLDS That's not it at all. Our gas stations are just like our stores, we'll certainly be competitive in t... SHARON WEBER I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation p... SHARON SALZBERG There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets a... SHARON OLDS We can't give the truth to someone as an object, we can only point to it, inviting inspection. I... SHARON SALZBERG