"I love Austin. It's great here. I don't mind the heat."

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Elizabeth Crook

#Mind Quotes #Austin Quotes #Heat Quotes

“The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right-these institutions are real and they must be destroyed.”
“To love Christ more, is the deepest need, the constant cry of my soul Out in the woods and on my bed and out driving, when I am happy and busy, and when I am sad and idle, the whisper keeps going up for more love, more love, more love!”

Source : Elizabeth Prentiss (1880). “Stepping Heavenward”
“People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.”
“I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his Author's hands; be pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.”
“I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.”

Source : Phoebe Stone (2012). “The Boy on Cinnamon Street”, p.135, Scholastic Inc.
“I'm a warrior for light.”
“Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures”
“If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.”

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