"Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get more lasting instruction not from another's work, whatever its blessings, however better it is than ours, but from our own poor scratched-over pages. For these we can hold up to life. That is, we are born with a mind and heart to hold each page up to, and to ask: is it valid?"

-- Eudora Welty

#Writing Quotes #Heart Quotes #Blessing Quotes

“To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being.”
“Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!”
“The 'will to peace' is the best answer that we can imagine to the 'will to war', which unfortunately seems as strong in this century as it was in the middle of the last.”
“And then there was Tick. Brave little Tick, who had flown into the faces of an army of rats to save his baby sister. Tick - who never spoke much. Tick - who shared her food. Tick - who was after all just a roach. Just a roach who had given all the time she had left so that Boots could have more. Gregor pressed Boots's fingers against his lips and felt scalding tears begin to slide down his cheeks. He hadn't cried, not the whole time he'd been down here, and there had been plenty of bad stuff. But somehow Tick's sacrifice had crushed whatever thin shell remained between him and sorrow.”
“Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.”

Source : Sam Walton (2012). “Sam Walton: Made In America”, p.47, Bantam
“I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.”
“I went to school with a kid who was so smart, the only time he got an answer wrong, they had to go back and change the question.”
“After obsessively Googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered 'obsessively Googling symptoms' is a symptom of hypochondria.”

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