"There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there."

-- Mary Karr

#Zero Quotes #Heart Quotes #Space Quotes

“The United Nations greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.”
“Every Congressman, every Senator knows precisely what causes inflation... but can't, [won't] support the drastic reforms to stop it [repeal of the Federal Reserve Act] because it could cost him his job.”
“Public office is a public trust.”
“It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.”
“I know of no condition worse than that of the man who has little or no light on the supreme religious questions, and who at the same time is making no effort to come to the light.”

Source : Enoch Fitch Burr (1871). “Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible”, p.53
“I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father was a health inspector; my mother was a social worker. And I was pretty smart in school. So they expected me to be some kind of academic - schoolteacher, or doctor, lawyer - and they were very disappointed when I told them I wanted to be a musician.”
“The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.”
“In a funny way I think social media is making people less rather more experimental. People are too worried about looking good all the time. When I grew up you could get it all horribly wrong and it didn't matter, there was no record.”

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