"Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?"

-- Jeanette Winterson

#Death Quotes #Children Quotes #Yesterday Quotes

“Love from one side hurts, but love from two sides heals.”
“Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.”

Source : Nyanaponika Thera (2005). “The Heart of Buddhist Meditation: Satipaṭṭhāna : a Handbook of Mental Training Based on the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness, with an Anthology of Relevant Texts Translated from the Pali and Sanskrit”, p.25, Buddhist Publication Society
“My most-used word was no! I said no to pockets, no to zippers, no to extra loops. In the end, all the products were so slim and light.”

Source : Source: www.irunfar.com
“The reality is that it's harder to recruit pediatric subspecialists if you're not recruiting them for a children's hospital.”
“Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.”
“Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. Forbidden is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. Its there to nourish your body.”
“A good play is a good play. If you want to chalk up your rejection letters to the fact that you're a woman, that's your choice. But often you get a rejection letter because your play isn't ready. Or the time isn't ready for your play. And that has nothing to do with gender.”
“I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. I am a Tom Wolfe fan of the first order.”

You may also like:

Angela Carter
Novelist
Anne Tyler
Novelist
Colm Toibin
Novelist
Hanif Kureishi
Playwright
Howard Jacobson
Author
Margaret Atwood
Poet
Sarah Waters
Novelist
Susie Orbach
Psychotherapist
Virginia Woolf
Writer