"If you do the best work you can, the reward is ultimately your self-satisfaction - the sense that you have done the best you can. And then there's that piece of how others respond."

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Jerry Pinkney

#Self Quotes #Done Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“Suffering is to the heart and soul as tears are to the eyes, cleansing and expelling toxicity from the inner system. When we do not allow ourselves to feel appropriate pain, we move into a sort of non-experience. We watch life rather than live it; we look but never get too close.”
“Anybody can call me Jamie, and you have to watch it when you call me James. Then there's going to be a problem.”
“Don't live in the past - you've already been there. And don't live in the future, either. Tomorrow will be here soon enough. Live in this moment now - it is sacred and unrepeatable. This moment alone holds valuable gifts that should not be missed.”
“Events sometimes are the biggest teachers, as opposed to words, lectures, and that kind of thing.”
“I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research against cancer is no study made of those who are free from cancer? Why not inquire what foods they eat, what habits of body and mind they cultivate? And why never study animals in health and natural surroundings? Why always sickened and in an environment of strangeness and artificiality?”

Source : "Threescore: The Autobiography of Sarah N. Cleghorn".
“Do what's good for you Or you're not good for anybody”

Source : Song: James, Album: Turnstiles, 1976
“The guy I've got my eye on happens to be hot. Off-the-charts hot. Hotter-than-Patch hot.' She paused. 'Well maybe not that hot. Nobody's that hot.”
“I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.”

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