"Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they donâ€™t want it."

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Source : Miller Williams (1997). “The Ways We Touch: Poems”, p.55, University of Illinois Press

Lucinda Williams

#Compassion Quotes #Want Quotes

“When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.”
“Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die...”
“So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?”
“A lot of people I meet say, 'You remind me so much of Magic Johnson.'”
“Today is ours; what do we fear? Today is ours: we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish at least with us to stay.”
“I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren't too many Hawaiian-Filipino girls, so I stuck out like a sore thumb. I didn't look like everyone else and didn't feel I belonged... But these things only build character and make you stronger. It taught me to grow into the woman I was to become.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.”
“My mother's one idea was to sacrifice her life to her children and she had done nothing else since the death of my father. We wished that she had married again instead.”

Source : Peggy Guggenheim (2016). “Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim”, p.21, Ravenio Books

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