"I sit at my door, smoking a cigarette and sipping my absinthe, and I enjoy every day without a care in the world"

-- Paul Gauguin

#Doors Quotes #Smoking Quotes #World Quotes

“In the suburbs it's hard to buy your Christmas gifts early in the year. You never know who your friends will be in December.”
“That ‘hundreds and hundreds’ was taken totally out of context. When I was making a point to this person, I was making a point that over my 31 years in the National Football League I’ve seen a lot of changes. There were hundreds and hundreds of things over those years that I’ve seen that have gotten better. Domestic violence is one of those.”
“These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss.”

Source : Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.122, Knopf
“The Bible teaches that all sin begins with sinful thinking.”
“As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression .”
“The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.”
“Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.”
“Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.”

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