"I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it."

-- Gertrude Stein

“Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.”
“Sometimes life is not about what u want to do but what u ought to do”
“It pleases our heavenly Father when we acknowledge and confess to Him our inability to run our own lives. That is what we are doing when we say, "Father, help me! I need You!"”
“I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.”
“If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character”
“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
“Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.”

Source : "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.
“I come to writing from hearing great stories as a child in Louisiana, where the mark of a person was his or her ability to be a raconteur. I also come to writing as a professional actress whose body has been trained to listen and smell and inhabit characters without judgment.”

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