"Love was really a high priority. You could drive up this road and there'd be open doors. You could actually walk in as a stranger and they'd invite you for a meal."

-- Linda Perhacs

#Doors Quotes #Priorities Quotes #Meals Quotes

“As a notorious multi-tasker, I love exercise that serves several purposes.”
“We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation in which the dissident in exile is seen as a bold figure, and those who choose to work with restrictions on their freedom are considered patsies for repressive governments. Let's not forget that most writers in history have lived under nondemocratic regimes: Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Goethe didn't actually enjoy constitutionally guaranteed rights to freedom of speech.”
“Laying up treasures in heaven will draw the heart heavenward.”
“Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really difficult and take longer than you'd like (it may even be painful), but other times it can be really easy and happen much faster than you expected. But either way - it is important, and it feels so much better when it's done.”
“Everything is disposable now: disposable lighters, disposable blades, disposable stars. They inflate you up for one big deal and then they look for someone else.”
“Love's an excuse to get hurt.”

Source : "Song: Lover I Don't Have to Love ("Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground")". 2002.
“To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life”
“It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.”

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