"I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned."

-- Frank O'Hara

#Winning Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Want Quotes

“A genuine act of kindness makes me feel like I really am where you cut underneath anything external, and you become what a human being can really be. Itâ€™s like coming home when you give kindness. Kindness changes us, as human beings,”

Source : "Pay It Forward". Book by Catherine Ryan Hyde, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.
“every artist is both male and female, and ... sometimes, the two great elements are in conjunction with him, so that all by himself he suddenly gets the melody and the burst of feeling of a great symphony without any external stimuli.”
“As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.”
“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”

Source : Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press
“We're doing fine. The fire is no closer today than it was yesterday or the day before. They expected or feared very high winds last night, and they didn't get them.”
“The matter of flies, lines and other equipment of the right sort is not absolutely necessary in the rising of fish but they are very important in that they make it easier to do the things which bring success and in some cases are essential to success.”

Source : Ray Bergman (1938). “Trout: Fly Plates in Full Color Painted by Edgar Burke; Photographs of Fly Tying by Charles S. Krug; Also Many Diagrams in Line by Ivin Sickles”
“Part of me regrets not finishing college.”
“So many people operate in a world of right and wrong [that] they become polarized. You're conservative or you're liberal; and if you're one or the other, you can't be both. I just think that this idea of right and wrong is kind of a damaging idea.”

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