"Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind."

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Source : Mia Couto, David Brookshaw (2006). “Sleepwalking Land”, p.39, Profile Books

Mia Couto

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“I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.”
“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.”

Source : Mary Wollstonecraft, Sylvana Tomaselli (1995). “Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints”, p.149, Cambridge University Press
“It takes a lot of strength to let go”
“You know those moments when everything is exactly the way it was meant to be? When you find yourself and your entire universe aligning in perfect synchronization, and you know you couldnâ€™t possibly be more content? I was inside that very moment, and fully conscious of it.”

Source : Alice Clayton (2016). “The Cocktail Collection: Wallbanger, Rusty Nailed, and Screwdrivered”, p.236, Simon and Schuster
“We are all self-made men and women, but only the successful take credit for it.”
“Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we are about to receive make us truly thankful.' ... he... felt his heart suddenly flow over with thankfulness... like a gush of warm water... All that remains is to live here quietly for the rest of my life, eating food that my own labour has made the earth to yield. All that remains is to be a tender of the soil.”
“A man's fatherliness is enriched as much by his acceptance of his feminine and childlike strivings as it is by his memories of tender closeness with his own father. A man who has been able to accept tenderness from his father is able later in life to be tender with his own children.”

Source : Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Touchstone
“I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.”

Source : Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. October 10, 2007.

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