"I donâ€™t know why life isnâ€™t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations, and our hearts get broken and out kids do scary things and our parents get old and donâ€™t always remember to put pants on before they go out for a stroll. I donâ€™t know why itâ€™s not more like it is in the movies, why things donâ€™t come out neatly and lessons canâ€™t be learned when youâ€™re in the mood for learning them, why love and grace often come in such motley packaging."

-- Anne Lamott

#Mistake Quotes #Fall Quotes #Heart Quotes

“The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.”
“If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.”

Source : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, D. M. Thomas (2006). “Poems”, Knopf Publishing Group
“To have character is to be big enough to take life on.”

Source : Mary Caroline Richards (1989). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.124, Wesleyan University Press
“I canâ€™t tell you what that first song was about. Something about love and a boy and a girlâ€¦ And this boy can think of nothing but holding that girlâ€™s hand in the darkness... All those ridiculous songs about love - I finally understood.”
“The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.”
“Since I was a graduate student, I've done a lot of journalism on the side, for The Village Voice, The Nation etc. And my greatest passion, as a reader, has always been nonfiction, with its vast, often underestimated imaginative and formal possibilities and its aura of the real. I find that combination seductive.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“My grandfather is great. He's a great grandfather.”
“I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com

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