"The quiet tenderness of Chaucer, where you almost seem to hear the hot tears falling, and the simple choking words sobbed out."

-- James Russell Lowell

#Fall Quotes #Simple Quotes #Tears Quotes

“The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun”
“Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.”
“The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.”

Source : Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”
“Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.”

Source : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.
“Invest in helping people know what matters to them and who matters to them (and why), and encourage them to continually experiment with how they get things done in ways the serve their interests and yours as an employer.”
“I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to deny the world around us; to refabricate it in our own image; to reinvent it for our own benefit. And so, it becomes something of a challenge, a task, to recover (or at least attempt to recover) the real world despite all the impediments to that end.”
“I think of myself as a young prince from a long line of royalty.”
“You always admire what you really don't understand.”

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