"We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Love Quotes #Inspirational Quotes #Family Quotes

“I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.”

Source : Edgar Albert Guest, “Myself”
“Out in the field I try not to hold expectations. I try to achieve an openness. The senses heighten so that I am totally immersed in what's happening at the moment. I want to be receptive to an image coming together.”
“Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.”
“No state legislature ever built a great university.”
“Heâ€™s sort of a homeless horse,â€ I said. â€œIâ€™m leaving for the airport in two seconds, and I wonâ€™t be back for a couple days. You can put the horse in the garage, but I donâ€™t want that horse in my apartment.â€ â€œWho would put a horse in an apartment? Thatâ€™s dumb.â€ â€œWhereâ€™s the horse staying now?â€ â€œMy apartment.â€ â€œI can always count on you to brighten my day,â€ Ranger said. And he disconnected.”
“I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.”
“I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.”
“Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.”

Source : "From Protest to Resistance" (p. 5), May 1968.

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