"You can't choose what you're famous for in life."

-- Dave Kellett

“Flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance. Likewise, we do not see that the Buddha exists in our own hearts.”
“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”

Source : Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.43, Beacon Press
“But wherever there is man, there must be some sort of route”
“A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost”
“The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.”
“I was concerned about a couple of steps that the Russian government took in the last several days. One was reducing the energy supplies to Czechoslovakia.”
“Marketing is an investment, not a cost.”
“I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding your brother again...I seek forgiveness for all whom I know for every harm I may have unwittingly caused them...Adieu, good, gentle sister...I embrace you with all my heart as well as the poor, dear children.”

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