"Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships."

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Source : Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.109, University of Illinois Press

Zora Neale Hurston

#Life Quotes #Ocean Quotes #People Quotes

“I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.”
“Nobody gets to say who we love, or who we lay down beside, or take as our husband, lover, life, or bride. Nobody gets to decide what's for some, that others should hide. Pride. Nobody gets to choose but YOU.”
“It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.”
“We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are.”

Source : Allan Lokos (2010). “Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living”, p.32, Penguin
“Hardworking families can no longer afford to wait for a Congress that gridlocks on ideology. I look forward to working with my colleagues from both parties to get things done.”
“With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.”
“The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft donâ€™t really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music.”
“It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her, and to succeed in his Pursuits, than for one who loves with the greatest Violence. True Love hath ten thousand Griefs, Impatiencies and Resentments, that render a Man unamiable in the Eyes of the Person whose Affection he sollicits.”

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