"Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone"

-- Edith Wharton

#Hate Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes #Eye Quotes

“We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.”
“A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.”
“I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes.”
“I'm a private contractor now. I choose my clients, not the other way around.”
“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.”
“I always kind of wanted to go into healthcare.”

Source : "Meet the Lawmaker Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (R-N.Y.), 25th District". Interview with Kris Kitto, thehill.com. April 04, 2011.
“I am this space my body believes in.”

Source : Yusef Komunyakaa (2013). “Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems”, p.139, Wesleyan University Press
“True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong; it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from the indifferent, and the permanent from the transient. And, yes, it means distinguishing between the good and the better, and even between the better and the best.”

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