"When my mother passed away I was 20."

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Deborah Norville

#Mother Quotes #Passed Away Quotes

“To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits delicate, bright, peaceful. It's never at such times that we become cruel or bloodthirsty. No, it's on a beautiful spring afternoon like this that people suddenly become cruel. It's at a moment like this, don't you think, while one's vaguely watching the sun as it peeps through the leaves of the trees above a well-mown lawn? Every possible nightmare in the world, every possible nightmare in history, has come into being like this.”

Source : Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.95, Tuttle Publishing
“I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the lessons globally of what happened with people.”
“I grew up in Arizona and have a lot of buddies that are cowpokes.”
“We are a social animal, power only exists in a social sense, we have to work in groups.”
“If it's not as easy as we thought it was, for women to speak our truth, to even know our truth, then the missing ingredient is some sort of inner courage. To first of all, believe in the validity of who we are. And then to speak from it. It takes inner courage. As a leader in a large organization, I've often been the only woman working with powerful men, especially when I was younger.”
“Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.”
“The fact that we're spending $700 billion a year on oil is actually a good thing; it means we have the prosperity to do it. It means that oil's being used, and oil is the fuel for the engine of freedom.”
“Arriving there is what you are destined for”

Source : C. P. Cavafy (2015). “Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy”, p.19, Princeton University Press

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