"Ive at times in my past been so unhappy, and thought, like, I would give anything for this not to be happening. And, you know, as people say, time passes, and then you think, Im kind of glad that happened to me."

-- Susan Choi

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes

“It's a very easy thing to say, 'Go get a backup quarterback.' Now tell me where to get them. You just can't dial them up.”
“When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable kinship with the wild feminine, a relationship which may have become ghostly from neglect, buried by over-domestication, outlawed by the surrounding culture, or no longer understood anymore. We may have forgotten her names, we may not answer when she calls ours, but in our bones we know her, we yearn toward her, we know she belongs to us and we to her.”
“Happiness is something that comes from our own hearts, not from other people.”
“We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.”
“To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.”
“The way is open, comrades, free as Space Alone is free. The only gold is love, A coin that we have minted from the light Of others who have cared for us on Earth And who have deposited in us the power That nerves our nerves to seize the burning stars.”
“What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever.”
“How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.”

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