"I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind. -Lindo"

-- Amy Tan

#Beautiful Quotes #Strong Quotes #Wind Quotes

“I can definitely be tough when pushed. In relationships, you have to take a stand for who you are and how you're willing to be treated.”
“I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.”

Source : Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”
“My mother was the biggest influence on me, without question.”
“My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around”
“This was the kid who used to toddle over to my bed at 6 oâ€™ clock in the morning every weekend morning to pull on my blankets so Iâ€™d get up and watch cartoons with him. This was the kid who once made me play Hungry Hungry Hippos for an hour straight, until I thought my hands were going to fall off from slamming down those dumb little levers to make the hipposâ€™ heads move. This was the kid who had spent an entire days at a time begging me to play Chutes and Ladders with him. And now he was feeling too sick to play with me.”
“What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.”

Source : Kobayashi Issa, “What A Strange Thing”
“Men don't follow titles. They follow courage”
“Whatever connection we thought we had before this...it doesn't compare to this moment. No matter what happens between us in life, this moment has just merged pieces of our souls together. Well always have that, and in a way it's comforting to know.”

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