"The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, itâ€™s all there."

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Source : Gail Tsukiyama (2007). “The Language of Threads: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

Gail Tsukiyama

#Pain Quotes #Eye Quotes #Heart Quotes

“An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity. It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.”

Source : Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company
“Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.”
“Trust yourself so that the mistakes you make are the ones you've made and not something you've made because you were afraid to do what you wanted to do. Own your mistakes, then you can own your successes.”

Source : "Director Jennifer Lynch Interview SURVEILLANCE". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 22, 2009.
“The explorer is the person who is lost.”

Source : Tim Cahill (1987). “Jaguars ripped my flesh: adventure is a risky business”, Bantam Dell Pub Group
“I had been writing professionally since 1988”
“In terms of political contributions, the free speech rights of corporations I dont think deserve the same protections as the free speech rights of real living, breathing, voting humans.”
“Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything so he tries, without craving, all of everything.”
“True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.”

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