"I really felt neurotic - it was a neurotic reason - but I had to teach very, very well. That sucked up a lot of oxygen from my time and my creative thinking."

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim

#Thinking Quotes #Oxygen Quotes #Creative Quotes

“The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.”

Source : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.15, Egmont UK
“He (Frank Robinson as Manager) can step on your shoes, but he doesn't mess up your shine.”
“The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.”

Source : "Beauty in Bloom : A Collection of Beautiful Inspirations‎" by Natalie Bloom, (p. 23), 2009.
“Threadbare his songs seem now, to lettered ken: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.”

Source : William Watson (1917). “Retrogression: and other poems”
“Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.”
“Too often we seek justice for just us.”
“No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion”
“Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago. . . . Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.”

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