"I never stopped joking around long enough to realize you weren't laughing anymore."

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Source : Alexandra Potter (2004). “Calling Romeo”, p.344, Simon and Schuster

Alexandra Potter

#Long Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Joking Around Quotes

“My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.”
“The voice of wisdom is inherent within us and willing to guide us when we stop to listen. Of course, there are times when we feel we've been still as stone, and the still, small voice is still too quiet to hear. When this happens, the challenge is to practice quieting your mind anyway. Stopping and asking, quieting and listening, trusting and waiting. Waiting is difficult but worth the effort because a quiet, uncluttered mind is a natural antenna for whispers of wisdom from within.”

Source : Sue Patton Thoele (2008). “The Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart”, p.97, New Harbinger Publications
“The only argument you can make against having [Confederate] flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis. I mean, it would be like having the swastika flag...”
“If I had all the money I've spent on drink â€” I'd spend it on drink.”

Source : "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End". Comedy recording by Vivian Stanshall, 1978.
“...it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing...”

Source : Galway Kinnell (2016). “Three Books”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.”
“My dad lives in Sicily, so I'm half Italian and half Irish - it's a fiery combination.”
“Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.”

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