"It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that."

-- Zora Neale Hurston

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“Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.”
“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.”

Source : Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony”, p.8, Harper Collins
“Being an entertainer includes knowing how to connect with an audience.”
“I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.”
“A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?”
“Sometimes--and I know it doesn't last for anything more than a second--sometimes there can be perfect understanding between two people who can't stand each other. He smiled, and I smiled, and we put the Timex watches on, and we watched the seconds flit by.”
“I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.”

Source : Sarah MacLean (2012). “A Rogue by Any Other Name: Number 1 in series”, p.157, Hachette UK
“And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.”

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