"There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands."

-- Nicolas Chamfort

“I can understand that if you have sold arms to the ayatollah why you might not be quite as sensitive to the need to get assault weapons off our streets.”
“There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises.... If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest, not what pays”
“We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.”

Source : Jack Gilbert (2009). “Refusing Heaven”, p.3, Knopf
“It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.”
“I'm confident that I can steal rounds by getting inside and throwing punches.”
“Every time you connect, a little bit more clarity stays around the love, a little bit more space opens up around it. your mind becomes clearer. you experience expanded possibilities. You become a little more confident, a little more willing to connect with others, a little more willing to open up to other people, whether that means talking about your own stuff or listen to theirs. And as that happens a little miracle occurs: You're giving, without expectation in return. Your very being becomes, consciously or not, an inspiration to others”
“Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.”
“The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.”

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