"I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence ... And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace."

-- Ursula Goodenough

#Self Quotes #Miracle Quotes #Grace Quotes

“One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.”
“I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.”
“My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them. I like them to be simple... to move well, to move with the times and a little ahead of the times.”
“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.”
“I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.”
“Coffee is the official beverage of culture.”
“What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.”
“Poetry is good for unleashing images.”

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