"Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us?Â It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in our surroundings."

-- T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

#Heart Quotes #Home Quotes #Individual Quotes

“I think it was Tommy who told me, 'When your song is called 'XYZ' or whatever, every line has got to make sense against your title.' He showed me little methods of proving to yourself whether the line belongs, and ways of finding out whether you were able to get more out of a line if you tried.”
“[D]onâ€™t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)”
“Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.”
“Insecurity must follow the transfer of responsibility from self to others, particularly when transferred to arbitrary and capricious government. Genuine security is a matter of self-responsibility, based on the right to the fruits of one's own labor and freedom to trade.”
“I donâ€™t really know why Iâ€™m not thinner than I am. I donâ€™t really drink soda, I donâ€™t have a sweet tooth, and we eat healthfully at home. Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought. But I am weirdly healthy, so I donâ€™t beat myself up about it â€” it wouldnâ€™t help, and I donâ€™t want to pass that on to my girls.”
“Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.”

Source : Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”
“The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.”
“Normally what I do is I'll record something that I really like which will be part of a song or an idea. I kind of just record things and then I'm done with them. It takes discipline to actually carve out a song.”

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