"Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything matteredâ€”-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments."

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Regina Doman

#Blue Quotes #Jeans Quotes #Sweaters Quotes

“If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.”

Source : Larry Crabb, Lawrence James Crabb (1991). “Inside Out”, NavPress Publishing Group
“I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.”
“I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel the need to unload on strangers. That is not the case. It also assumes that I just talk about myself the whole time which, again, is not true.”
“The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played. If only I could feel that sense of total absorption in what I was doing when I was doing other things. It was more than absorption, it was spontaneity, competence, a sense of grace and playfulness, of being in touch with an inexhaustible source of energy and beauty.”

Source : Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.52, Seven Stories Press
“Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.”
“To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.”
“Take something you love, tell people about it, bring together people who share your love, and help make it better. Ultimately, you'll have more of whatever you love for yourself and the world.”
“I only wish to be gone. Therefore, I AM.”

Source : Carol Plum-Ucci (2002). “What Happened to Lani Garver”, p.316, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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