"That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood."

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Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.12, Macmillan

Alexandra Adornetto

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #People Quotes

“Accepting the apology signals the acknowledgment of a need to move forward, but not necessarily together.”

Source : John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.164, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about bargains made me think of The Little Mermaid and that made me remember something I had just read about the incredibly complex process by which tadpoles (actual little mermaids) are somehow able to reabsorb their tails and fashion their future frog legs.”
“I have a lot of appetites and try to revel in almost everything, so inspiration can even come from a well-appointed submarine sandwich, you know?”
“Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.”
“W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin. He began publication of an expensive magazine and proclaimed 'a thousand secret agents in a thousand communities.'”
“In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple in China do them? Were a Swedish man and woman foot to foot at this very moment?”
“I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to be useless and ineffectual. There must be some meaning to me, if not to my life; there must surely be some purpose that has my name written on it. If this is not so, if I am deceiving myself about this too, then why should I want to become real? What reason have I to live anywhere?”

Source : Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”
“The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!”

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