"I have never thought I could take it, not even for the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to stand between them and and pain. But I come from a long line of women who put themselves first."

-- Sharon Olds

#Pain Quotes #Children Quotes #Long Quotes

“I don't remember who wins awards [Oscars]. I've won a few but what I really remember are movies. I love films, so I'm not concerned about speculation about winning things because I really enjoy being in films that last longer than an opening weekend. That's my goal in life.”
“I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really be proud of. But it's got to be one where everybody is involved. Everybody: consumers, employers, providers, health-insurance companies, everybody.”
“Fruit of all the kinds that the country produced were laid before him; he ate very little, but from time to time a liquor prepared from cocoa, and of an aphrodisiac nature, as we were told, was presented to him in golden cups... I observed a number of jars, above fifty, brought in, filled with foaming chocolate of which he took some...”
“Donâ€™t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists and horticulturists. All you have to do is design. You donâ€™t have to be a botanist; you donâ€™t have to be a bulldozer driver; you donâ€™t have to be a fence builder; you donâ€™t have to be an architect. What the designer has to do is look at the relationships.”
“Once we make our relationship choices in an adult way, a prospective partner who is unavailable, nonreciprocal, or not open to processing feelings and issues, becomes, by those very facts, unappealing. Once we love ourselves, people no longer look good to us unless they are good for us.”

Source : David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.85, Shambhala Publications
“And the wind will whip your tousled hair, The sun, the rain, the sweet despair, Great tales of love and strife. And somewhere on your path to glory You will write your story of a life.”

Source : Song: Story Of A Life, 1980
“No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.”
“No man rides harder than my Lord Scamperdale - always goes as if he had a spare neck in his pocket.”

Source : Robert Smith Surtees (1860). “Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour”, p.197

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