"The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted."

-- Edouard Manet

#Spring Quotes #People Quotes #Broken Quotes

“The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten: that you cannot separate the land from the water, or the people from the land.”
“Whether you are cooking, cleaning house, or planting flowers, try to concentrate on the textures, the smells, colors, tastes, sounds, all Zen moments of focused joy.”
“I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you." Not just the parents who are raising you on a day-to-day basis, but also to have contact with your birth mother and hopefully your birth father. So that you can be like, "Oh, they love me too, and they love me so much that they knew they couldn't take care of me but they're still in my life to some extent."”
“Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.”
“Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.”

Source : Julio Cortazar (2014). “Hopscotch: A Novel”, p.216, Pantheon
“It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation.”
“To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It's embedded in me.”
“Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!”

Source : "Raising Hope ‘s Garret Dillahunt Reflects on Deadwood , Any Day Now , and the Importance of Keeping It Different" by Andrew Fish, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2013.

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