"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."

-- Abraham Lincoln

#Motivational Quotes #Death Quotes #Kindness Quotes

“They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.”
“It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.”
“If I call it pain, and try to touch it With my hands, my own life, It lies still and the music thins, A pulse felt for through garments.”

Source : Tracy K. Smith (2007). “Duende: Poems”, Graywolf Press
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
“Middle age is when you get in the car and immediately change the radio station.”
“What did I do to deserve this?”
“The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.”
“New York City is like the appetizer table at a Jewish wedding, loaded with salt and spice and cholesterol and flavor, with a waiter holding out pleasure in his right hand and indigestion in his left. If you've got the bucks, this burg has the bangs.”

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