"That was my dad's sense of, you know, laughing at himself, laughing at existence, the universe, all of it and not being too serious about what we do with because at the end of the day if you're here it's a blessing. It's you know life is hard. Life is hard for everybody at some point, but it's those who are able to laugh at it and laugh with it and roll with it that ultimately I think live the fulfilling lives that we're all trying to do. You know, and big step there is to not take yourself too seriously from the start."

-- John Buffalo Mailer

#Blessing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Laughing Quotes

“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
“Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes.”

Source : "Yotam Ottolenghi's recipes for roasted rhubarb with sweet labneh, plus halibut and harissa stew with lemon ricotta" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.
“Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.”
“To me the truth comes first and then the literature. We in China are dealing with a dictatorial system and we writers have to take a stance on it.”
“There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.”

Source : The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. December 2004.
“Everything is a process... some of our eating habits consist of things we can't change, but if we modify it a little and put some exercise in there, we can really make a difference.”
“I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics.”
“White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got to stay here mongst each other and git along, that's what.”

Source : Margaret Walker (2016). “Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.485, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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