"You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just right, but there's a point at which you can tell you've begun hurting the work with your perfectionism. Then you have to release the work to new eyes."

-- Anne Lamott

#Hurt Quotes #Writing Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Someday love will find me in the rough. Someday love will finally be enough. I shine a little more lately.”

Source : Song: In The Rough, Album: Wreck of the Day, 2005
“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens â€” that letting go â€” you let go because you can.”
“If the Bible is what it claims to be, how can we allow it to remain on a bookshelf?”
“So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.”
“When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.”
“I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.”
“No war is inevitable until it breaks out.”
“In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.”

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