"When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it."

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Source : Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Map: Collected and Last Poems”, p.328, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Wislawa Szymborska

#Past Quotes #Silence Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I completely appreciate the importance of fathers but millions of children are without loving homes. I think a child is lucky with one parent who truly loves her.”
“When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.”
“I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys”
“If other people think Iâ€™m okay looking, thatâ€™s great, but I donâ€™t see it myself. When I look in the mirror all I see is a bunch of fake teeth and football scars.”
“The softer your heart is the less that your past is forming your present and your future. When there is openness and softness of heart, what forms the present and the future is not your past but the reality of your own being.”
“The United States is for a two-state solution. The United States wants to see the Israelis and Palestinians come together.”
“People happy in love have an air of intensity.”
“If you live for the highest goal, you are living a life of the spirit-whether or not you consider yourself to be on a spiritual path. If you consciously notice the larger aspects of life, always consider whether what you are doing coincides with these aspects, never forget the times when you were enlivened by the power of the highest goal, use those memories in new situations, and act with the knowledge of the support you have and the journey you are on-you will be living for the highest goal.”

Source : Michael Ray (2005). “The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment”, p.5, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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