"Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget."

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Source : M.K. Asante (2013). “Buck: A Memoir”, p.140, Spiegel & Grau

M. K. Asante

#Song Quotes #Heart Quotes #Love Is Quotes

“Peopleâ€™s lives are often other than they seem to be on the surface. And sometimes, whatâ€™s underneath and hidden is the best part of all, the part of real value.”
“I am not here for me I am not here to promote my ego I am here to serve the Great Spirit To be a voice for those afraid to speak To be movement for those who are stuck I am here to reveal a mystery To learn something new about myself”
“You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just the way it is. It's like learning an instrument, you've got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot, cause I wrote an awful lot before I wrote anything I was really happy with. And read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.”
“My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.”
“John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue”
“While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.”
“The acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what it takes to stop you. Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you.”
“... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.”

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