"There is something so tender about this to me, about being willing to have your makeup wash off, your eyes tear up, your nose start to run. Its tender partly because it harkens back to infancy, to your mother washing your face with love and lots or water, tending to you, making you clean all over again."

-- Anne Lamott

#Running Quotes #Mother Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Sometimes you can tell what something is by what is isn't.”
“So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from May 04, 2011
“...there is therefore now no condemnation for two reasons: you are dead now; and God, as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world, has been dead all along. The blame game was over before it started. It really was. All Jesus did was announce that truth and tell you it would make you free. It was admittedly a dangerous thing to do. You are a menace. Be he did it; and therefore, menace or not, here you stand: uncondemned, forever, now. What are you going to do with your freedom?”
“I'm an equation that only she solves, these X's and Y's by other names called. My way of dividing is desperately flawed as I multiply the days without her" - Page 165”
“Don't make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts, only the facts.”

Source : Harold Eugene Edgerton, Estelle Jussim, Gus Kayafas (1987). “Stopping Time: The Photographs of Harold Edgerton”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated
“Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.”
“People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.”
“As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life...Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities...”

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